March 29, 2024
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Seoul seeking partners for plan to overhaul DPRK judiciary after unification

Supreme Court looking to case of Germany on best practice for integrating former communist lawyers

South Korea's Supreme Court is seeking a private sector partner for research into best practice on the reform of former North Korean legal professionals after the unification of the peninsula.

South Korea's highest legal body said the reintegration of North Korean lawyers and judges into the post-unification Korea would have to be preceded by an investigation into “the record of their cooperation with the dictatorship.”

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