South Korean Man Given Suspended Sentence for Twitter Posts

[genobalto]

[QUOTE]article: [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/world/asia/south-korean-man-gets-suspended-sentence-for-tweets.html?_r=0[/url]

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean man received a suspended 10-month prison term on Wednesday for resending North Korean propaganda posts from his Twitter account.

The man, Park Jung-geun, 24, a photographer and social media and freedom of speech activist, was arrested in January on charges of violating South Korea’s controversial National Security Law, which bans “praising, encouraging or propagandizing” for North Korea but does not clearly define what constitutes such acts. He was later released on bail.

Mr. Park was accused of resending 100 posts from an official North Korean Twitter account until late last year, including one that said “Long Live Kim Jong-il!” After Mr. Kim, the longtime North Korean dictator, died last December, Mr. Park also wrote on his Twitter account that he wanted to send North Korea “uranium and plutonium” as a show of condolence. He also uploaded Web links to North Korean propaganda songs.

Mr. Park denied praising the North Korean government and said his intention was to lampoon the North Korean regime.[/QUOTE]

LOL.. yeah, I know the issues with free speech will come up, ... but COME ON! A South Korean man sending NK propaganda?.. what's there to gain from that?.. lol. That's just silly.

[cecilbdemodded]

I hope his photographs aren't as unfocused as his sense of humor.