Let us Eliminate the GNP

The Information Bureau of the Central Committee of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front on January 21 made public an open questionnaire addressed to the Grand National Party. It lashed out at the GNP for having staged a fascist charade aimed at deceiving the popular mass under the motto of “defense of liberal democratic system,” and “champion of democracy” as a successor to the ill-famed “Yushin” dictatorship.

The “liberal democratic system” which the GNP claimed would defend at the risk of its life means the revival of the “Yushin” dictatorial system, the questionnaire noted, and continued: The GNP, the most savage violator of democracy in the world, the descendant of the fascist dictator and the successor to the “Yushin” dictatorial regime and the “Republican Party,” should tell the people what is its real intention.

The GNP never misses the chance to trumpet about “political coloring” such as “crisis of security.” This is nothing but a political farce intended to fool the people for the purpose of usurping power.

The GNP is raising the same hue and cry over the “crisis of security” as the “Yushin” dictator did. This is nothing but a sinister design to seize power by fanning up confrontation and an atmosphere of war among Koreans in utter disregard of the interests of the country and the nation.

The rowdyism kicked off by the GNP outside the building of the National Assembly, chanting “Repeal revised law on private schools” is nothing but an arrogant and high-handed act of ignoring and threatening the people.

If the law that passed through the National Assembly with an approval of the overwhelming majority of the people and by the agreement of the ruling and opposition parties should be regarded as a “law railroaded through it in a brigandish manner,” how should one call the “bill on the constitutional revision allowing the election for the third-term” and the “Yushin constitution” which were cooked up by the “Yushin” dictator by setting the CIA in motion without any approval from any opposition parties or people?

Park Geun-hye should think twice over the mounting criticism voiced even in members of the GNP that “its representative’s ideological prejudice is a hereditary disease” and “confrontational ideological framework is the only thing one can say of her leadership ability.”

The GNP is made up of descendants of cruel torturers, murderers and law-enforcement agents in the era of military dictatorship who are now working with bloodshot eyes to return to power. They are now busy whitewashing the past crimes, not uttering even a word of apology to so many guiltless people who were executed and those who suffered mental and psychological pain after being branded as “spies” and “families of Reds” for half a century. How can this group talks about human rights?

  The reality goes to clearly proves that it is impossible to expect any genuine democratization of society nor is it possible for the people to get rid of political instability and confusion in living nor is it possible to achieve inter-Korean reconciliation and unity and the country’s reunification as long as there remain the descendants of the dictatorship such as the GNP.