Damn in the US you can attempt to over throw the govt and stay in congress

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You should be free to praise North Korea if you wish without fear of imprisonment. I can’t put it more bluntly than that.

Freedom of speech is when you’re allowed to say things that don’t go against government policy.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A South Korean court has sentenced a 68-year-old man to 14 months in jail for praising the North in a poem.

He wrote that if the two Koreas were united under Pyongyang’s socialist system, people would get free housing, healthcare and education.

He was convicted under a law that prohibits public praise of North Korea.

Lee had been jailed for 10 months in the past for a similar offence, The Korea Herald reported.

In its ruling on Monday, a Seoul court said he “continued to generate and disseminate a considerable amount of propaganda that glorified and praised the North”, the Korea Herald said.

South Korea’s National Security Act outlaws the praise and promotion of “anti-government” organisations.

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Dude wrote a poem for the North Korean state media advocating for the unification of Korea under the ‘Pyongyang’s socialist system’. Considering that the reason for the entire Korean war and the ongoing conflict between North Korea and South Korea is that both claim to be the only legitimate government of all Korea, I can see why they would find this seditious.