Rodong Sinmun on S. Korea's Action Taken to Disconnect Internet Sites
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- The Defense Security Command of the south Korean army on March 26 labeled 32 Internet homepages "pro-north Internet sites" and disconnected them for the mere reason that they dealt with the justice of the Songun politics of the DPRK and its proposal for achieving reunification by federal formula.Commenting on this action, Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says:
This is one more act against reunification running counter to the June 15 era of reunification and a fascist action against democracy and human rights as it was aimed to deprive the people of even their elementary right to enjoy information and tele-communications, a product of high human civilization.
A few years ago, the "National Intelligence Service" and the security authorities of south Korea disconnected the DPRK's Internet homepages including "Hero of Mt. Paektu Blog", "By our nation itself" and homepages of the south Korean reunification movement organizations which had access to them after labeling them "pro-north."
The action taken by the south Korean security authorities to disallow the legitimate use of Internet is nothing but suppression of media in the age of information and tele-communications and a deliberate move to hamstring the process of inter-Korean reconciliation.
What is more intolerable is that an intelligence machine of the south Korean army was involved in detecting and disconnecting "pro-north sites." This compels the DPRK to suspect that south Korea is set to bring back the era of military dictatorship when it mobilized even the "Security Planning Board" and the military intelligence machine to kick up a whirlwind of fascism in the society whereby the reunification movement forces were labeled "enemy-benefiting elements" and "spies" and punished on charges of violation of the draconic "National Security Law."
The above-said action is a rash one intolerable in any case.
The south Korean ultra-right conservatives should halt at once such incomprehensible foolish acts of suppressing even the free use of information and tele-communications and media freedom, not away from the outdated logic of confrontation.
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