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Rodong Sinmun Calls for Meting Out Final Judgment to NSL

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The abolition of the "National Security Law" (NSL) is the most urgent task for the reform in south Korea which brooks no further delay and an important historic task of the nation to prevent the danger of confrontation and war and achieve its great unity, peace and reunification. Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a signed commentary. The issue of abolishing the NSL is high on the agenda as it is the focus of the acute confrontation between the progressives and the conservatives in south Korea, the commentary notes, and goes on:
    The repeal of the NSL is an aspiration of the south Koreans and the demand of the times. Those who stand for the abolition of the evil law, however, seem to be deterred by the strong opposition of the conservative forces.
    The NSL can never go with democracy and reunification which represent social and historic justice.
    The NSL lost its justification to exist after the demise of the Cold War era as it defines the fellow countrymen in the north as an enemy.
    There is no reason to keep the NSL in the era after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration which calls on the north and south of Korea to put an end to the confrontation and go ahead hand in hand, transcending the difference in ideology and system.
    Those who claim the nature of the system will shake if the NSL is abolished are now raising again a hue and cry over the "threat from the north." Quite contrary to their claim, the north does not pose any threat to the south but provides a guarantee for its security.
    The ruckus kicked up by some ultra-right conservatives, insisting that the NSL should not be repealed, is aimed at keeping it, scuttling reforms come what may and bringing back the old era of confrontation when discord and tension prevailed between the north and the south in a bid to seek the justification for their existence and find a way of returning to power.
    The confrontation between the progressives and the conservatives over the issue of the NSL is, in essence, the confrontation between the new and the old.
    If the "Grand National Party" truly wishes to emerge as a new political party in the new era, it should accept the new idea in the era of the June 15 joint declaration, not regarding the "political coloring" dating back to the bygone days as an all-powerful weapon, give up its consciousness of confrontation with the north and opt for alliance and reconciliation with the north.
    The 17th-term "National Assembly" should take on a new appearance as a reform-oriented national assembly truly desirous of the reconciliation, unity and peace between the north and the south.
    The ruling forces in south Korea would be well advised to reject such do-it-only-halfway conception as an "amendment" and "alternative legislation" and opt for completely abolishing the NSL without any vacillation.