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What South Korea can do to combat North Korean disinformation before it starts

Seoul must take advanced action to track propaganda trends and educate the public about how Pyongyang distorts history

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