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| 2004/11/12-14 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/Korea] UID:34859 Activity:low |
11/12 "Seoul May Ban North Korea College Web Site". I don't get it,
why? Are they really that afraid of what the NK have to say?
\_ Link?
\_ http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&e=2&u=/nm/20041112/wr_nm/korea_north_website_dc
\_ http://tinyurl.com/5wgpc
\_ Wasn't the US media always make a big fuss about China
blocking some external sites? hehe.
\_ If SK starts blocking US media sites, they will raise a fuss too
\_ The answer is, well, yes. There are a few reasons. 1) Most of
the polititions are old, and therefore can harken back to the
the politicians are old, and therefore can harken back to the
old days when Communism actually seemed attractive. They may
have friends who migrated north during the war, although most
of the migration was south, of course. Another problem is that
korean youth are, by and large, surprisingly easy to
manipulate. The schools don't teach critial thinking, and push
a lot of nationalistic propaganda, which results in the North
Korea love seen amoung many young South Koreans. Finally, in
the NK/SK conflict the internet is a one-way communication
medium. NK can push propoganda to the South, but northerners
can't read any SK propoganda, so it's a bum deal for the south
from that perspective. -jrleek
PS The article meantions that all they're really doing is
applying the existing security law to a new medium.
Communication with NK is heavily curtailed in SK. Although I
agree with Roh Moo-hyun that these laws ought to be repealed
now. |
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| story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&e=2&u=/nm/20041112/wr_nm/korea_north_website_dc web sites)'s Kim Il-sung Uni versity to stop the communist state's ideology from spreading among the South's Internet-savvy young, an official said on Friday. The move comes amid squabbles in South Korea's parliament over scrapping or revising the National Security Law that restricts contacts with the n orth. The issue has taken on a bitter ideological tone because North Kor ea has consistently demanded repeal of the act. "We have received an official request from police to ban access to the We b site and referred the case to an ethics committee," Chung Dae-soon, an Information Ministry official in charge of the case, said by telephone. "If the committee concludes it violates the security law, we would ban ac cess soon," he added. com) offers distance l earning and replaces 42 years of educational radio broadcasts, the Joong Ang Daily newspaper reported. The site features animated pictures but is a far cry from jazzy South Kor ean sites and lists courses on the country's ideology and leaders. Kim Il-sung, the late North Korean leader, mixed Marxism and ultra-nation alism to form his country's go-it-alone Juche ideology. He founded the D emocratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948 and ruled it unchallenged u ntil his death in July 1994. In the first communist dynastic succession, his son Kim Jong-il inherited power from his father, who has been named "Eternal President." "The Web site is unilaterally cramming young netizens with Juche ideology which runs counter to public sentiment," said a police official who dec lined to be named. "We need to block access to resources of one-sided information or knowled ge which ordinary people can obtain easily." Police had asked the government to block 31 North Korean-related Web site s, he added. The South's president, Roh Moo-hyun, wants to scrap or revise the securit y law, saying it is a relic of the country's 1970s and 1980s military di ctatorships. But the conservative opposition argues the law is still needed because No rth Korea has never renounced its goal of overthrowing the South by forc e -- as Pyongyang tried to do when it invaded in 1950, sparking the thre e-year Korean War. South and North Korea are still technically at war since the conflict end ed in armed truce without a peace treaty. Republication or r edistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the pri or written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any error s or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon . |
| tinyurl.com/5wgpc -> story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&e=2&u=/nm/20041112/wr_nm/korea_north_website_dc web sites)'s Kim Il-sung Uni versity to stop the communist state's ideology from spreading among the South's Internet-savvy young, an official said on Friday. The move comes amid squabbles in South Korea's parliament over scrapping or revising the National Security Law that restricts contacts with the n orth. The issue has taken on a bitter ideological tone because North Kor ea has consistently demanded repeal of the act. "We have received an official request from police to ban access to the We b site and referred the case to an ethics committee," Chung Dae-soon, an Information Ministry official in charge of the case, said by telephone. "If the committee concludes it violates the security law, we would ban ac cess soon," he added. com) offers distance l earning and replaces 42 years of educational radio broadcasts, the Joong Ang Daily newspaper reported. The site features animated pictures but is a far cry from jazzy South Kor ean sites and lists courses on the country's ideology and leaders. Kim Il-sung, the late North Korean leader, mixed Marxism and ultra-nation alism to form his country's go-it-alone Juche ideology. He founded the D emocratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948 and ruled it unchallenged u ntil his death in July 1994. In the first communist dynastic succession, his son Kim Jong-il inherited power from his father, who has been named "Eternal President." "The Web site is unilaterally cramming young netizens with Juche ideology which runs counter to public sentiment," said a police official who dec lined to be named. "We need to block access to resources of one-sided information or knowled ge which ordinary people can obtain easily." Police had asked the government to block 31 North Korean-related Web site s, he added. The South's president, Roh Moo-hyun, wants to scrap or revise the securit y law, saying it is a relic of the country's 1970s and 1980s military di ctatorships. But the conservative opposition argues the law is still needed because No rth Korea has never renounced its goal of overthrowing the South by forc e -- as Pyongyang tried to do when it invaded in 1950, sparking the thre e-year Korean War. South and North Korea are still technically at war since the conflict end ed in armed truce without a peace treaty. Republication or r edistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the pri or written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any error s or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon . |