South Korea: Man gets 14-month jail term for praising North in poem
In the piece titled Means of Unification, the man hailed Pyongyang's socialist system.
Damn in the US you can attempt to over throw the govt and stay in congress
Maybe that's why I struggle to understand why this man was jailed... in my country, 68 year old men make openly seditious statements and they get put into government.
Oh, the irony. Even the democratic South Korea will act fascist and won't allow freedom of speech.
tbf, part of being democratic means your people get to decide for themselves what they will and won't allow, they have that overriding freedom. We, for instance, could amend our constitution to remove our 1st amendment, if we so wished. It's a power we have.
That does not make them militaristic, aggressive, hyper-patriotic states though, which is something different.
True, democracy =/= freedom, though they usually (used to) go hand in hand
Easy to say when you’re not in a nation sharing a huge border with an actual fascist state that you’re still at war with
You should be free to praise North Korea if you wish without fear of imprisonment. I can't put it more bluntly than that.
Freedom of speech is when you're allowed to say things that don't go against government policy.
Seems like that's the new global definition of "freedom" in general
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A South Korean court has sentenced a 68-year-old man to 14 months in jail for praising the North in a poem.
He wrote that if the two Koreas were united under Pyongyang's socialist system, people would get free housing, healthcare and education.
He was convicted under a law that prohibits public praise of North Korea.
Lee had been jailed for 10 months in the past for a similar offence, The Korea Herald reported.
In its ruling on Monday, a Seoul court said he "continued to generate and disseminate a considerable amount of propaganda that glorified and praised the North", the Korea Herald said.
South Korea's National Security Act outlaws the praise and promotion of "anti-government" organisations.
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Dude wrote a poem for the North Korean state media advocating for the unification of Korea under the 'Pyongyang's socialist system'. Considering that the reason for the entire Korean war and the ongoing conflict between North Korea and South Korea is that both claim to be the only legitimate government of all Korea, I can see why they would find this seditious.
I don't know how anyone can defend tossing a person in jail over a poem
At least the nortg is honest that u dont have freedom. Then again they are technicaly still at war.
