The south Korean puppet government of Kim Young-sam has asked a
court in Seoul, south Korea to give an unspecified multi-year
prison term to a well-known student leader. Ri Won Gu, is the
former chairman of the Committee for the Reunification of the
Country, an organization that is under the south Korean Federation
of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon).
His trial began September 14, on a charge of violating the
fascist National Security Law that prohibits any contact with the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The government prosecutor
alleges that Ri Won Gu "manipulated south Korean students to make
secret visits to the North without the authorities' permission,
including dispatching messages." He is also alleged to have
assisted in the preparations for delegates of Hanchongryon to
participate in the grand reunification celebration during August.
The annual festival highlights south Korean students' demands
for reunification, the ouster of U.S. troops and the repeal of the
National Security Law. The festival was violently crushed by the
police and over 7,000 students were arrested.
Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
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