CPRK Secretariat Blasts S. Korean Puppet Authorities for Disbanding UPP

 Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- The puppet south Korean authorities Friday let the "constitutional court" forcibly disband the Unified Progressive Party (UPP), a legitimate progressive party, and deprive five lawmakers from the party of their membership as the "National Assemblymen".
    The fascist authorities made the decision on the dissolution in just thirty minutes, charging that the programme of the party is just like the "Juche idea and Juche concept of the north" and the "north's revolutionary strategy toward the south", and that its objective and activities are aimed to "realize progressive democracy by violence and to build socialism the way the north did in the end".
    The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) in information bulletin No. 1082 Saturday said the forcible disbandment of the legitimate political party as part of violence of elementary political freedom and democratic right in south Korea is a crime against humanity and a hideous and crucial case that blatantly challenges human civilization and universal human rights.
    The puppet forces fully revealed their true colors and barbarity as the kingpin of human rights abuses and a rare fascist tyrant through the recent act, the information bulletin said, and went on:
    The recent act means a crude violation of democracy in south Korea as it will bring to naught the fruit of democratization which the south Koreans have won with much efforts.
    The Park Geun Hye group's tyrannical act is pursuant to its sinister intention to revenge the shame and insult it sustained from the Unified Progressive Party during the past "presidential election", highlight the "coloring of those following the north" and thus wipe out pro-reunification patriotic forces and prevent the opposition party from coming to power. It is also aimed to divert elsewhere the public attention focused on the "government" following the case of Jong Yun Hoe's interference in the state affairs and thus tide over the serious ruling crisis.
    It is clear that the sword of fascism that disbanded the Unified Progressive Party will mangle other progressive political parties and turn the whole of south Korea into a tundra of democracy and human rights.
    It is the height of impudence for the violators of democracy and human rights to take issue with others over "human rights" and "democracy."
    The present puppet conservative forces obsessed by fascism and confrontation with fellow countrymen will only cause the disaster of war, far from helping win independence, democracy and human rights in south Korea and reunification of the country. -0-