Struggle to Repeal the NSL, an Evil Anti-reunification Law

The south Korean security authorities are getting more frantic in recent days in suppressing those who praise and follow north Korea and patriots championing independent reunification in alliance with the north.

After arresting Ryu Son-min, chairman of the 15^th term South Korean Federation of University Student Councils on January 15 on charges of having violated the notorious “National Security Law”(NSL), the security authorities took away Song Hyun-a, propaganda chairwoman of the Solidarity for Realizing the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration.

Such atrocities of the security authorities are the overall suppression of the organizations which have actively struggled for the national reunification, and an anti-reunification act denying the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration.

Therefore, today the south Korean people from all walks of life are bitterly denouncing the fascist forces which are running amuck in the anachronistic suppression of ideology and reunification movement wielding the NSL, and waging dynamically to abolish the evil law.

About 80 youth and student organizations including several regional federations affiliated to the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils and the Youth and Student Solidarity for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration stated that the foremost task in developing the reunification-oriented relations between south and north Korea is the repeal of the NSL.

They stressed that they would valiantly wage the struggle to ostracize the anti-reunification and confrontational maniacs who deny and dishonor the October 4 declaration.

Members of civic organizations including the Solidarity for Reunification, the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country’s Reunification, the People for Peace and Reunification asserted that without removing the legal and systematic mechanisms the June 15 reunification era cannot be ensured.

They claimed that the NSL which defines the fellow countrymen in the north as enemy and suppresses patriotic personages struggling for reunification, should be abolished immediately, and asserted that they would dynamically struggle to repeal the NSL.

The abolition of the NSL is a historic assignment that brooks no delay in our times advancing toward independent reunification, peace and prosperity.

The AINDF and patriotic people in south Korea will more dynamically conduct the struggle to abolish the NSL, an anti-democratic and anti-reunification evil law that stems the advance of the June 15 reunification era and instigates inter-Korean confrontation.