South Korea jails 68-year-old man for poem praising North Korea: Report
South Korea jails 68-year-old man for poem praising North Korea: Report
The poem by Lee Yoon-seop advocated for unification and was published in North Korea's state media in 2016.
In totalitarian South Korea...
It's not the worst for the South. I mean, compared to the Mass Murders that the Yankee regime in collusion with the Fascists committed in the 50s and 60s. This is just touching the surface.
Gonna have to ease them into that one, a lot of Lemmy still isn't ready for that bit of history.
So they’re saying that the dude was praising North Korea because he wanted a united Korea that lives under Pyongang’s socialism, claiming that less people would be in debt and there’d be less suicide. Didn’t read the actual poem itself so idk if the dude was praising Kim Jeong Il or if he was just saying how cool it’d be to live under socialism.
I’m not quite sure how Korea is in general outside of “North bad, South good”, but it sort of sounds like South Korea is just practicing censorship here. Does South Korea have freedom of speech?
“North bad, South good”
You should know very well that it's not that simple with any regime the US props up. South Korea has been getting better, but it has a nasty history. Mass murders, disappearances, it's not pleasant. It's not like the revolts they were having in support of the North were fake. I think it took them until the 1990s to have a government that wasn't a military dictatorship with reeducation concentration camps.
I hadn't heard any of this. I have very little trouble believing it though. I'll have to educate myself.
It's been my experience that there really is no nuance when it comes to any regime the US props up.
Always relevant: Loyal citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul
"Free Country"
I looked out of curiosity and the equivalent thread on Reddit is praising this decision.
Nazis?! On Reddit???!!! 😱
They're all for authoritarianism when it's a country they like.
Western neoliberal democracy 🤪
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How can he be anti-State and pro communism?
do you have any other wisdom you may utter?
Not sure what you mean. The economic system is separate from the state.
State for who?
How does it honk without opening its beak?
