South Korean authorities announced last Friday new measures to attack the rights of Korean students. Korea University and many others have shut down what they call "unauthorized student circles, especially those suspected of leaning to leftist ideologies." They also said they will take steps to cut off financial sources for "militant students." Korea University Thursday ordered the closure of the head office of Hanchongnyon, or the Korea Federation of University Student Councils. Hanchongnyon organized the "unification festival" of youth and students calling for the peaceful reunification of Korea, the ouster of U.S. troops from the Korean Peninsula and the ending of the repressive "National Security Law." The south Korean government outlawed the festival and ordered its police and military to violently attack the students, injuring hundreds and arresting 5,800. Yonsei University has also attacked the students by filing lawsuits against Hanchongnyon and individual student demonstrators for $12 million in material damages caused when the police attacked the students on that campus. Every level of the south Korean "civil" state has turned the students' demands into a law and order issue. They have effectively criminalized the mass of students and outlawed any discussion on the questions of reunification and the withdrawal of U.S. troops. This open fascism further exposes the fraud that the Republic of Korea (RoK) is a "civilian" and "democratic" state. The RoK remains a fascist state and under the guise of being "civilian" and "democratic" it hopes to continue indefinitely as a U.S. puppet, separated from its kin in the DPRK , and exploited and enslaved by U.S. imperialism. Shawgi Tell University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED]