The commentary said that Kim Se Chang, a member of the organizing committee of the south headquarters of Pomminryon, was put into custody in Seoul detention house, adding his illness has taken a serious turn.

It went on:

The government is pressing for an investigation into him who is suffering from an incurable disease. This has greatly enraged the people. His myelitis with complications has now reached the phase of threatening his life.

The authorities put into custody pro-reunification and patriotic-minded figures who have made efforts to end the national division and achieve the reunification of the country in the spirit of the July 4 north-south joint statement and the June 15 joint declaration. This is a denial of the joint declaration and an act of escalating confrontation with the nation and standing against reunification.

The commentary demanded the authorities set him free at once, describing the detention as an act of murdering him.