ASSPUK, JISGE, UK KFA and BSCKRP call for the abolition of the National Security Law in south Korea

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK

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                  London  3rd of December Juche 107(2018)
The Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK (ASSPUK),the Juche Idea Study Group of England(JISGE) , the UK Korean Friendship Association(UK KFA) and British Solidarity Committee for Peace and Reunification (BSCPRKP)  issued a joint statement calling for the abolition of the 'National Security Law ' in south Korea :
  On the 1st of December it was 70 years since the south Korea enacted the horrendous 'National Security Law'(NSL for short)which basically forbids any communist or pro DPRK activities in south Korea . For 70 years this draconian law has been in force in south Korea.
  The NSL was a copy of the laws of Japanese colonialism , in fact such a law is testimony to the neo-colonial nature of south Korea, an entity lacking in independence.The NSL stipulates that 'Any person who praises, incites or propagates the activities of an antigovernment organization, a member thereof or of the person who has received an order from it, or who acts in concert with it, or propagates or instigates a rebellion against the State, ..... shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than seven years'. The maximum sentence is death . The law is fascist in the extreme  and McCarthyite as well as being reminiscent of the laws of Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa.It is a thought control law aimed at suppressing communist , socialist and progressive thinking in south Korea.
Hundreds of thousands of progressive south Korean people have been persecuted under the law and many even executed .
 At present the Korean peninsula is moving towards peace and reconciliation but the NSL in south Korea presents a stumbling block for this process and a brake on the process because it defines the DPRK as 'an anti-state entity ' . As such the NSL is a grave anachronism.
  Our organisations demand that the NSL should be abolished at once and all political prisoners in south Korea should be freed.
 We hope that the labour and progressive movement in the UK will take up this demand.
ASSPUK
JISGE
UK KFA
BSCPRKP