US EditionSouth Korea: Man gets 14-month jail term for praising North in poem
- A 68-year-old man in South Korea has been sentenced to 14 months in jail for praising North Korea in a poem, violating a law that bans public praise of North Korea.
- The man had previously been jailed for 10 months for a similar offense and had also posted anti-state content on South Korean websites.
- The court ruled that he continued to spread propaganda praising the North and its military by posting comments online in 2013.
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South Korea man jailed for writing poem praising North
Lee Yoon-seop, a 68-year-old man from South Korea, was sentenced to 14 months in jail Monday for writing a poem that praised North Korea and entering it into a competition organised by a North Korean propaganda website, according to the Yonhap News Agency. He was charged with breaching South Korea’s National Security Act which, under Article 7, bans praising, inciting or propagating activities of an antigovernment organization. The National Secu…
A South Korean man has been sentenced to one year and two months in prison for writing a poem praising North Korea in 2016 and for violating a law banning access to North Korean websites, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Monday.
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SEOUL - A court in South Korea today sentenced a man (68) to 14 months in prison for glorifying North Korea in his song.
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