After the emergence of the Lee Myong-bak regime in south Korea in 2008 legal pro-reunification organizations were branded as “enemy-benefiting organizations”, subjected to suppression one after another, their core members were arrested and sentenced to severe punishment. And this is still the case.
- Suppression of the Solidarity for Realizing the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration
The solidarity is a lawful reunification movement organization which was formed after the adoption of the June 15 joint declaration in reflection of the desire of different social standings in south Korea for realizing the independent reunification by the concerted efforts of the nation.
It has vigorously waged the activities since its formation in order to facilitate the inter-Korean reconciliation and unity, and drive the US occupation force out of south Korea , achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula , abolish the fascist “National Security Law” and to defend the people's right to existence.
It has also conducted the propaganda functions in south Korea for the Juche idea and the Songun politics in accordance with the south Korean people’s demands.
The fascist authorities labeled it as an “enemy-benefiting organization” which praised and propagandized the Juche idea and the Songun politics, staged a farcical trial in April last year on its members by involving them in so-called “an incident of a spy group” of their own fabrication, claiming that its leading figure received instructions from north Korea, distributed them to the organization members, wrote and circulated documents praising the north. They committed such atrocity as sentencing them all to a severe punishment.
The fascist regime held a public trial of the members of the solidarity on December 27 last year, sentenced its permanent co-representative Kim Sung-gyu and organizational chairperson Kim Young-ran to 2-year imprisonment, 4-year probation and 2-year suspension of qualifications, and chief editor Yun Cheol-sin and management head Kim Za-kyong of the June 15 TV, a sub-organ of the above-said solidarity, to one and half-year imprisonment, 2-year probation and one and half-year suspension of qualifications respectively.
- Suppression of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country’s Reunification
The National Alliance for the Country’s Reunification is a tripartite solidarity organization from the south, north and overseas formed with the aim of expelling the outside forces and realizing the independent reunification of the country through the united efforts of the entire nation.
Its south headquarters is a lawful pro-reunification movement organization which has struggled in the van since its formation hand in hand with all the organizations and personages valuing the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and aspiring for their implementation.
On May 27 last year the fascist regime put all-out blockades on its office and 6 other places and the houses of its chairman and other 15 core members and conducted a forced search, and walked away its chairman Lee Gyu-zae, management director Lee Kyong-won, propaganda chief Choi Un-a on charges of violation of the notorious “NSL”.
The fascist regime claimed that they met with the north figures to exchange information, praised and encouraged the north Korean system through publications, and received instructions from the north, thus transforming the south headquarters into a stronghold of a spy network, terming it as an “anti-state organization”.
Succumbing to the showering protests and the intensified struggle of the various circles in south Korea against the fascist acts of the security authorities, the fascist regime could not but set free the chairman Lee Gyu-zae, Lee Kyong-won and Choi Un-a on November 17 last year.
- Suppression of progressive youth and students organizations
The fascist regime cast a dragnet for Song Hyo-won, chairperson of the 13th-term South Korean Federation of University Student Councils, who strove for the sake of justice and truth, putting her on the list of wanted persons for years, and arrested her in December last year at last.
She, as the chairperson of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils, stood in the van of the struggle for the settlement of the registration fee issue and against the expansion of the US military bases in Pyongtaek, and did not stop the patriotic reunification activities even under the condition of police search.
The fascist regime labeled the South Korean Council of Youth Organizations as an “enemy-benefiting organization” last year and suppressed it, and arrested Kim Son-nam, a patriotic student of Korea University , who devotedly fought for the country and the people for 7 years though he was facing the persecution of the police as a wanted person.
The successive fascist regimes in south Korea despicably maneuvered in a bid to stave off their ruling crisis by cooking up non-existent “spy incidents” whenever they found themselves on the brink of ruin owing to their sycophancy and treachery.
However desperately the fascist fanatics in south Korea suppress the reunification movement organizations and their members, they cannot block the vigorous movement of the south Korean people toward the reconciliation, unity and reunification.
Some 100 civic organizations and political parties including the Solidarity for Progress, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Democratic Labor Party formed the “Civic and Social Joint Measure Committee to Cope with the Suppression of the National Alliance for the Country’s Reunification”.
They announced to jointly struggle against the madcap suppression of the fascist fanatics against the pro-reunification movement organizations and hold denunciation rally, protest demo and conduct ad publication campaign almost everyday.
Gwon O-heon, honorary chairman of the Supporters’ Society for the Prisoners of Conscience under the Family Movement for Realizing Democracy and permanent co-representative of the “Civic and Social Joint Measure Committee” called upon all the people to dynamically wage the struggle to repeal the evil laws against human rights, democracy and reunification.
The “National Security Law”, an anti-democracy, anti-human rights, anti-reunification and anti-people evil law, should be repealed without fail.
The AINDF and the south Korean people from all strata will intensify the struggle to abolish the NSL, decisively smash the shuddering fascist suppression moves of the Lee Myong-bak clan and set free the arrested members of the reunification movement organizations.
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