SKoreans convicted for pro-NKorea activities
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court sentenced two activists on Tuesday to at least two years in prison for engaging in pro-North Korea activities, an official said.
The Seoul Central District Court convicted the men for violating the National Security Law by establishing a civic group sympathetic to North Korea and holding forums praising North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, court spokesman Kwon Tae-hyung said.
One man received a sentence of 24 months, the other 30 months, Kwon said.
He said two other activists received suspended prison terms because their pro-North Korea activities were not deemed as serious. Kwon said the convicted have one week to appeal.
The activists’ group — Solidarity for Practice of the South-North Joint Declaration — said in a statement that it only aims to promote peace between the divided Koreas. It also accused the court of using the “old-fashioned” security law to return South Korean society to the Cold War era.
The broadly worded security law was not vigorously enforced when inter-Korean relations flourished under back-to-back liberal governments that launched a set of reconciliation projects with North Korea during their administrations that ran from 1998-2003 .
Ties between the Koreas, however, have soured since pro-U.S. President Lee Myung-bak took office last year in Seoul with a tougher policy on the North.
The Seoul court, the Justice Ministry and the prosecution said Tuesday that they could not immediately confirm whether the number of those convicted under the security law has increased since Lee’s inauguration.
The two Koreas are still technically at war because their three-year conflict that ended in 1953 concluded with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!
But they left out a crucial piece of information in the article which was that both people had contacted North Korean officials without authorization. That is definitely a crime in South Korea. The article has a bit of a "spin" to it to make it look like some blatant act against the freedom of speech.
I have long suspected that these guys took their orders from North Korea and guess what? It turns out to be true.
That pro-North Korea stuff, is BULLSHIT and I'm glad the government isn't putting up with it anymore.
If anyone asks if arrests concerning North Korea have gone up, yes they only can have since the previous administrations made close to ZERO arrests regarding the matter.
The bullshit ends here mother fuckers.
Your asses are going to jail.
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