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[-] GutsBerserk@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago

Oh, the irony. Even the democratic South Korea will act fascist and won't allow freedom of speech.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Easy to say when you’re not in a nation sharing a huge border with an actual fascist state that you’re still at war with

[-] TheAlbatross 25 points 9 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 24 points 9 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.

[-] tillimarleen@feddit.de 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ah, of course that changes everything. Throw the old men in jail

[-] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Jail is a bit extreme. True.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 12 points 9 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.

[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

tbf, part of being democratic means your people get to decide for themselves what they will and won't allow, they have that overriding freedom. We, for instance, could amend our constitution to remove our 1st amendment, if we so wished. It's a power we have.

That does not make them militaristic, aggressive, hyper-patriotic states though, which is something different.

[-] ilmagico@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

True, democracy =/= freedom, though they usually (used to) go hand in hand

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 19 points 9 months ago

South Korea was the more brutal dictatorship of the two up until the ~90s.

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