On August 30, at around 7 a.m., the National Security Investigation Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency raided the People’s Democracy Party (PDP) office and the homes of party members.
Seoul Central District Court issued a search and seizure warrant to the PDP’s founding president and others on suspicion of violating the National Security Act, including organizing and acting in concert with a group that benefits enemy.
The police illegally detained party members not named in the warrant, vandalized property, and conducted illegal, violent, and anti-humanitarian searches.
The raids came a day after the outcome of the appeal of the Chairman of the PDP’s regional branch, Kim Byung-dong, who was detained in court in the fabricated “Corean Alliance Case” during the Park Geun-hye fascist “regime.”
[Spokesperson’s Report (Statement) 558]
The doom of the fascist lunatic Yoon Suk-yeol is near.
Yoon Suk-yeol is carrying out a vicious fascist suppression against a constitutional political party. At around 7 a.m. today, the National Security Investigation Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency raided the People’s Democracy Party (PDP)’s office and party members’ private residences, accusing the party of violating the National Security Act. The content of the warrant and the search process were extremely malicious and crude. The public security authorities made ridiculous allegations linking the PDP to the Corean Alliance for Independent Reunification and Democracy (Corean Alliance), which disbanded eight years ago and has no existence and has a completely different organizational purpose and composition, and violently detained party members who were not named in the warrant during the search, committing completely illegal and anti-human rights abuses. With his fascist repression on the PDP, a constitutional party formally organized and recognized under due process, Yoon Suk-yeol has once again proven himself to be the worst fascist lunatic.
Yoon Suk-yeol’s fascist madness was already revealed through his reckless remarks on the 15th and 19th. On the occasion of the Aug. 15 Liberation Day, Yoon Suk-yeol recklessly spoke of “pseudo-intellectuals and demagogues as the anti-freedom, anti-unification forces that are blocking our progress” and “dark forces of instigation,” without a single word of rightful historical evaluation of the Japanese imperialist forces that brought pain and humiliation to the Korean people. On the 19th, the day the Ulchi Freedom Shield war drills began, he warned of fascist repression, saying, “Anti-state forces threatening our liberal democratic system are operating covertly throughout our society”. For Yoon Suk-yeol, “anti-Japan is the betrayal of the their country” and the forces against foreign power and supporting independence is so-called “anti-state forces”. This was evident in August of last year, when he demolished a bust of anti-Japanese resistance Hong Beom-do with the oxymoronic phrase “communist-totalitarianism,” and then framed the protesters against Fukushima nuclear contaminated water as a “force calling 1+1 equals 100”.
The ‘public security’ oppression against a constitutional political party further convinces us that Yoon Suk-yeol is aiming for martial law. On Aug. 12, Yoon Suk-yeol appointed Kim Yong-hyun, Chief of the Presidential Security Service and a former commander of Capital Defense Command, as his nominee for defence minister. Yoon Suk-yeol tried to revise the enforcement decree to state that the Presidential Security Service would have command and supervision over the military and police used for security during Kim Yong-hyun’s term. However in May 2023, as the possibility of martial law became a concern and public backlash grew stronger, the decree was revised by subtly changing the wording. In April 2023, active-duty military personnel from the former Defense Security Command, who had been dismissed for their involvement in drafting the “Martial Law Review Document” during the Park Geun-hye regime, were reinstated to the “Counterintelligence Command”. According to publicly available information, Yeo In-hyung, Park Jong-sun, Kim Yong-hyun, and Lee Sang-min are part of the so-called “Chungam High School Line,” holding positions as the Commander of the Counterintelligence Command, the Commander of the Defense Security Agency, the Minister of National Defense nominee, and the Minister of Interior and Safety, respectively. Additionally, National Security Advisor Shin Won-sik, who is a year senior to Kim Yong-hyun at the Korea Military Academy, is effectively part of the same “line.” This indicates that Yoon Suk-yeol’s version of the “Hanahoe (fascist coup-plotting faction in military in 1980)” faction has already been established.
What will Yoon Suk-yeol’s fate under the imminent war situation be? The storm of Third World War caused by imperialism is blowing through Eastern Europe and Western Asia to the Western Pacific. Yoon Suk-yeol is prostrating himself before the Japanese militarists by “paying” for the Dokdo islands in accordance with the U.S. imperialist power’s strategy to provoke a war in the Western Pacific, and inside, he is viciously suppressing the patriotic forces seeking independence and peace, intensifying provocations for a war with North Korea, and igniting a war in the “Republic of Korea (ROK)”, which is a flashpoint for a war in the Western Pacific. In a situation where fascist groups, claiming to be the vanguard of U.S. imperialist aggressors, are facing defeat or struggling on various fronts of a potential Third World War, resulting in increasing isolation and crisis, Yoon Suk-yeol cannot be an exception.
Meanwhile, previous fascists in ROK have met their end through assassination, impeachment, or imprisonment. Undoubtedly, Yoon Suk-yeol, the cause of the “ROK” war and the provocateur of the Western Pacific, will meet the most terrible and most miserable end of any fascist, and our people will make it so. The precedent of Park Geun-hye’s fascist regime, which dug its own grave by engaging in fascist repression of political parties and social organizations, proves that Yoon Suk-yeol’s downfall is near. Where there is oppression, there is resistance. Our people will unite in the struggle against Yoon Suk-yeol and U.S. imperialism, overthrowing the fascist warmonger Yoon Suk-yeol, defeating imperialist aggression, and advancing and achieving a new world of independence and peace.
August 30, 2024, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Gwanghwamun, Seoul
Spokesperson office of the People’s Democracy Party (PDP)
