Update (Dec. 15, 2020 at 8:34 a.m. KST): This article has been updated to include a statement from a nonprofit group that sends bibles to North Korea.
Despite days of outcry from human rights groups, South Korea’s National Assembly passed a vague and comprehensive law that criminalizes many common forms of activism against North Korea, including leaflet launches over the border and sending USBs full of foreign media to the DPRK.
After two straight days of filibusters, 187 lawmakers voted in favor of the “anti-leaflet” bill on Monday, bringing to fruition a law that can jail violators for up to