SEOUL – The Justice Ministry will seek to devise proactive means for curbing “anti-state” and “pro-enemy” activities, such as those that support North Korea, it said Wednesday.

The justice ministry reported to President Park Geun-hye its new year’s plan to build up a legal foundation for prohibiting activities by, and the establishment of groups recognized as, anti-state and pro-enemy by the court.

Currently, there is no legal foundation to forcibly disband a group even if the court recognizes it as anti-state or pro-enemy.

A ruling party lawmaker in 2013 proposed an amendment to the National Security Law allowing authorities to