[PEN-L:6772] Students Active Despite Repression

[SHAWGI TELL <v600a8e6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The south Korean Federation of National Student Councils
(Hanchongryon) representing one million south Korean post-secondary
students, even though banned and declared a "communist and north
Korean spy agency," has resumed its activities throughout the south
with great support from the students and faculty members, according
to the south Korean media. The media reports that the whole country
was surprised to see the leaders of Hanchongryon appear publicly
together at Seoul National University last Thursday, even though
they are wanted by the police for breaking the fascist National
Security Law and leading an illegal organization.  The student
leaders were apparently protected from arrest by the masses and
encouraged to make a statement denouncing the continuing attacks on
the youth and students, and the use of the grounding of the
submarine from the north as an excuse to generate war hysteria by
the puppet Kim Young-sam regime. The student leaders in a statement
said that the sailors from the wrecked submarine should have been
assisted, and talks should have immediately begun with the north to
settle the issue peacefully, instead of slaughtering in the most
brutal manner fellow countrymen who were in trouble, and provoking
a very dangerous escalation of tension in the country.


Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
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