Forcible Disbandment of Legitimate Political Party Denounced

Pyongyang, December 22 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppet forces committed such a fascist act of forcibly disbanding the Unified Progressive Party (UPP) and depriving lawmakers from the party of their membership as "National Assemblymen".

A spokesman for the Democratic Lawyers Association of Korea in a statement Monday branded the puppet authorities' act of disbanding the party by deliberately linking its programme with the DPRK and terming the party "a political party violating constitution through pursuance to the north" as a wanton violation of democracy and human rights and an unprecedented politically-motivated terrorist act.

The Democratic Lawyers Association of Korea branded the Park Geun Hye group's act of forcibly disbanding the UPP as an unwarranted fascist one that totally denies the elementary requirements in the light of law and an outrageous, mediaeval and tyrannical act that crudely violates the freedom of expression and assembly to turn south Korea into a political hell, the spokesman said, and went on:

It is not the dark era of the last century when anti-communist McCarthyism prevailed and strong wind of fascism raged. But the legitimate political party was disbanded in the 21st century, a crime against humanity that runs diametrically counter to the trend of the times and the universal rights of humankind.

It is the height of shamelessness that the fascist tyrants and biggest human rights abusers who wantonly violate elementary political freedom and democratic rights of human being are raising a hue and cry over the "human rights issue" of the north.

Moreover, the present south Korean chief executive praised the recent fascist act as a "historical decision." This proves that Park Geun Hye has been behind it and she tries to revive the departed soul of "yusin" dictatorship.

The puppet conservative group's act of disbanding the UPP at the point of bayonets is aimed to wipe out the progressive democratic forces and put down the struggle of opposition parties through the wind of the "forces following the north" to prevent it from seizing power again. It is also aimed to calm down the public criticism focused on it due to the case of Jong Yun Hoe's interference in state affairs and thus tide over the ruling crisis.

It is clear that south Korea will turn into the tundra of human rights and democracy and that all political parties and organizations whom the group of traitors is displeased with will be subject to fascist suppression as long as those fascist hooligans seized by the ambition of long-term office and confrontation with fellow countrymen are left as they are.

The historical lesson proves that those who prolong their remaining days through fascist misrule will meet only ruin.

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.