Politician charged after reposting North Korean government tweets
PROSECUTORS in South Korea have indicted a member of the country’ssocial party for allegedly reposting North Korean government tweets onTwitter.
Park Jeong-geun was charged for violating a law that makes it a crime to
praise, sympathise or cooperate with North Korea, the Socialist Party in
Seoul claim.
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Hide AdOfficials of the small opposition party say Park re-tweeted the messages
to promote freedom of expression and lampoon the North’s government.
Indictments under South Korea’s anti-North National Security Law have
shot up since a conservative government took power in Seoul in 2008.