March 28, 2024
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Despite uproar, Seoul passes law that can send North Korea activists to prison

Legal experts and human rights groups worry that the new law is too sweeping and infringes on free speech

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.


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