South Korea’s National Security Act outlaws the praise and promotion of “anti-government” organisations.

Yikes. I’m not a fan of North Korea and I can get it if there’s some desire to prevent a fascist movement growing in SK, but this seems waaaay too broad.

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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