ROK President Lee Jae Myung has kicked off a process of making it easier for South Korean citizens to access North Korean media, a win for civil liberties in a country that has long restricted speech praising communism and the adversary next door.
But as I previously described, Seoul’s liberalizing move also opens the door to propaganda that could undermine South Korea’s hard-won democracy if it doesn’t take preventive measures.
While North Korea may not have a track record for Chinese-style disinformation campaigns, that could easily change, and the example of Taiwan shows why it is in the ROK’s