• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    The article says the poem is about yearning for a united Korea where Koreans don’t have to pay for education and healthcare and aren’t committing suicide over debts.

    Hardly seems worth sending a 68 year old man to jail for over a year.

    • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      Lee Yoon-seop advocated for unification in his piece that was published in the North’s state media in 2016, South Korean media report.

      He wrote that if the two Koreas were united under Pyongyang’s socialist system, people would get free housing, healthcare and education.

      You omitted the key point here, the poem advocates for all of Korea to be united under the North Korean regime.

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      11 months ago

      Personally I don’t agree with the charge but I can understand South Korea for not allowing glorification of the north. Anyone that thinks North Koreans have access to universal healthcare and quality eduction are lying to themselves.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I wouldn’t go as far as defending the poem, but going to jail over it is just stupid