The "Defense Ministry" ordered each unit to delete those songs from medium, banning their introduction into barracks. Consequently, in units and at their karaoke rooms one can see only notice "Banned" if any of those songs was selected.

In this regard, Minister Kim Kwan Jin and other brasshats of the puppet ministry told the "National Assembly" Legislation and Judiciary Committee that the step was taken for maintaining "military discipline".

"Arirang" is a famous song popular among the Koreans both in the north and south from long ago. Included in those "seditious songs" are folk songs "The Nodul Riverside", "Platycodon", "Milyang Arirang" and "Ballad of the Pheasant" and "Balsam", a song of the enlightenment period, as well as songs created and already spread in the north and the south of Korea.

Some of the folk songs were designated as "seditious ones" because they were arranged in the north.

Such action is now arousing strong protests and criticism from among the people of different social standings in south Korea.

Articles and comments have been posted on different websites one after another to accuse the south Korean puppet military group of having deprived the people of the right to sing even a song at will. One of the articles deplored that it is not free for anyone in south Korea to read a book or sing a song, recalling that the year of 2008 witnessed the list of "seditious books".

A journalist said that "Arirang" is a song liked by the Koreans through generations and he could not understand why it was branded as a "seditious song". Meanwhile, a publicist queried that any piece of music should be "seditious", if it is sung by a singer in the north.

The south Korean public has denounced the measure as a reminder of the era of "yusin" fascist dictatorship, which had ruthlessly trampled upon the people's freedom.

The authorities of south Korea, not content with barring the people from singing the songs reflecting the desire of all Koreans for national reunification, went the length of defiling the nation's cultural heritages only for confrontation among the fellow countrymen.

Such disgusting step is a separatist and fascist act that could be done only by those steeped in conception of antagonism toward the fellow countrymen.

The puppet conservative group should keep in mind that only shameless self-destruction awaits them.