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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 01:29 AM
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South Korea jails academic for seven years
REUTERS , SEOUL
Wednesday, Mar 31, 2004,Page 5

A South Korea-born professor who returned home last year after 37 years in exile in Germany was jailed for seven years yesterday for working for communist North Korea, a court official said.

Song Du-yul, a sociologist who is now a German citizen, was ruled to have engaged in pro-Pyongyang activities and to have been a ranking member of North Korea's ruling Workers Party.

"Song was sentenced to seven years in prison for working as a member of North Korea's Workers Party," said an official of Seoul's Central District Court. Judges said he was an alternative member of the party's politburo, the official said by telephone.

Intelligence officials said Song had visited the North at least 18 times between 1973 and 2003 and received instructions from Pyongyang.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/03/31/2003108555
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