2023-11-26 23:43:41
Court related images. /Chosun DB
A man in his 60s who wrote a poem praising the North Korean regime and won a contest conducted by Uriminjokkiri, a North Korean propaganda website once morest South Korea, was sentenced to prison for violating the National Security Act.
It was announced on the 27th that Criminal Division 3 (Judge Lee Jong-min) of the Seoul Central District Court sentenced Mr. A (68), who was indicted on charges of violating the National Security Act (assembly, communication, praise, encouragement, etc.), to 1 year and 2 months in prison and 1 year of suspension. .
In September 2016, Mr. A was handed over to trial on charges of indirectly accessing Uriminjokkiri and sending a subversive material written by him titled ‘Plan for Unification.’
In the article, Mr. A claims that if North Korean-style socialist unification is achieved, ‘there will be no need to wander around looking for a house to rent,’ ‘there will be no need to spend days in despair because of lack of work,’ and ‘countless people will not commit suicide.’ did it
Mr. A also wrote, ‘The people of the North are already united and moving forward for unification, so let us, the people of the South, unite together and move forward for unification.’
In early 2016, when it was announced that an art contest would be held on the Uriminjokkiri website, Mr. A was found to have participated by sending an email to the administrator and a post in the reader submission section of the site.
The article sent by Mr. A was selected as the winning work in November of the same year. After his article was selected as the winner, Mr. A posted the article on a domestic internet site.
In addition, Mr. A is also accused of writing comments praising, encouraging, and propagating North Korean activities on online articles related to the North Korean military in 2013, and reposting 72 cases of hostile expressions on domestic portal sites or blogs between 2014 and 2017, or storing them in his email box.
It is known that Mr. A has been indicted in the past for praise and encouragement under the National Security Act and was sentenced to a total of 10 months in prison.
The court said, “The defendant represented North Korea’s position over a long period of time during the period of repeated offenses, glorified and praised it, and produced and distributed a significant number of subversive expressions that threatened the existence and security of the country or the basic order of liberal democracy, so severe punishment is inevitable.” However, he stated the reason for sentencing, saying, “We took into account the fact that he admitted to all his crimes during the trial and the fact that he did not engage in violent actions to overthrow or undermine the basic order beyond posting.”
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