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South Korea: Students arrested, charged under the National Security Law

The academic group of students, Capitalism Research Society, is being investigated by the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) and its president has been arrested with other group members on charges of national security, the Hankyoreh reported 24 March.

The president stopped the company, known as Chloe has been accused of violating the National Security Law.

Police said Chloe and his group have openly supported the "enemy" in North Korea. They are accused of having launched a series of pro-North Korea in 2006, the red flag of the new generation of Young Communists. They were also following the guidelines for action to support the enemy in Economics Alternative Camp in January 2008. The group has published more than 30 pro-North Korean writings on the Internet.

While two former members of the group were released on 21 March, 12 other representatives have had their homes searched by the police who seized computers, USB keys and documents. The police announced that students would be interrogated.

The arrests have been criticized by the opposition as leading to a police state atmosphere.

Beak Won-woo, secretary of the main opposition Democratic Party, denounced the use of the North Korean ideology by the authorities as a means to survive a crisis between the two countries.

Lee Jung-he, chairman of the Democratic Labor Party, said that the arrests could lead to increased police pressure on students and other citizens, forcing them to censor. She said that members of his party were some of the students arrested, and described the police action as an attempt to discredit the opposition.

Since the attacks of North Korea in December 2010, the government of South Korea has strengthened its control of the propaganda of North Korea in the country, especially on the Internet.