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N. Korea condemns S. Korea's Nat'l Security Law as fascist, anti-human rights
SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) -- Two civilian North Korean groups blasted a South Korean law that bans South Koreans from siding with the communist North Korean regime, calling it "the most fascist law against human rights," the North's state media said Friday.
South Korea's National Security Law prohibits any activity that is sympathetic to the Pyongyang regime, including the formation of pro-North Korea groups, contacting North Koreans without government permission and distributing publications praising the North.
According to the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the Democratic Lawyers Association of (North) Korea and the DPRK Association of Human Rights Studies issued a joint indictment Friday, accusing South Korean President Lee Myung-bak of violating human rights in his country through the National Security Law (NSL).
"According to the indictment, the 'National Security Law,' which consists of four chapters and 25 sections and annex, is the most fascist law against human rights, unprecedented in its contents," the KCNA said in a dispatch monitored in Seoul.
"The indictment cites concrete data to prove that since the very day it took office the Lee Myung-bak puppet group revived the NSL and fascist dictatorial system and has savagely violated the rights of the South Koreans," it said.
The dispatch went on to claim that the South Korean government in 2009 deleted at least 14,000 articles praising North Korea from the Internet and arrested those responsible. It also mentioned several other high-profile cases related to the National Security Law, saying they "aimed to calm down the people's resentment caused by the (Lee Myung-bak) group's domestic and foreign policy failure, economic bankruptcy, people's destitution and anti-reunification policy for confrontation."
The groups also called on the South Korean government to abolish the law and stop raising the issue of human rights abuses in North Korea. Pyongyang vehemently denies any accusations of rights abuses, despite international reports of thousands of political prisoners, extrajudicial executions, torture and forced labor.
South Korea's National Security Law prohibits any activity that is sympathetic to the Pyongyang regime, including the formation of pro-North Korea groups, contacting North Koreans without government permission and distributing publications praising the North.
According to the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the Democratic Lawyers Association of (North) Korea and the DPRK Association of Human Rights Studies issued a joint indictment Friday, accusing South Korean President Lee Myung-bak of violating human rights in his country through the National Security Law (NSL).
"According to the indictment, the 'National Security Law,' which consists of four chapters and 25 sections and annex, is the most fascist law against human rights, unprecedented in its contents," the KCNA said in a dispatch monitored in Seoul.
"The indictment cites concrete data to prove that since the very day it took office the Lee Myung-bak puppet group revived the NSL and fascist dictatorial system and has savagely violated the rights of the South Koreans," it said.
The dispatch went on to claim that the South Korean government in 2009 deleted at least 14,000 articles praising North Korea from the Internet and arrested those responsible. It also mentioned several other high-profile cases related to the National Security Law, saying they "aimed to calm down the people's resentment caused by the (Lee Myung-bak) group's domestic and foreign policy failure, economic bankruptcy, people's destitution and anti-reunification policy for confrontation."
The groups also called on the South Korean government to abolish the law and stop raising the issue of human rights abuses in North Korea. Pyongyang vehemently denies any accusations of rights abuses, despite international reports of thousands of political prisoners, extrajudicial executions, torture and forced labor.
