Criticism
- The Journalists Association of Korea made an official statement in 2007 that the National Security Act keeps maintaining South Korea as "a third world country on human rights".
- Rhyu Si-min of the People's Participation Party was interviewed by the Pyeonghwa Bangsong (평화방송) radio and criticized the existence of the NSA as "a 60 year old political tool" of public oppression that is used by the Lee Myung-bak government.
- One of the 33 victims of the Osonghoe Incident, Chae Gyu-gu (채규구), said that "the National Security Act must disappear" in order to stop accusing innocent South Korean citizens in the future.
- Louisa Lim of the NPR had posted criticism towards the National Security Act and its broadened usages under the President Lee Myung-bak.
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