twenty billion other publications repeat this uncritically

    • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      This is because of a South Korean law that makes it illegal for any media to praise the DPRK so that was as close as they could get without breaking the law.

      • acealeam [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        While the South Korean constitution guarantees freedom of speech and assembly for its citizens, behaviors or speeches in favor of North Korea, left-wing policies or Communism can be punished by the National Security Law. Political parties such as the Unified Progressive Party have been banned under the law, after one of its lawmakers Lee Seok-ki was accused of plotting a "pro-North Korean rebellion" under the 2013 South Korean sabotage plot.[4]