#President Yoon Suk Yeol

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King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima host the state banquet in honour of President of the Republic of Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, and Mrs. Kim Keon Hee at the royal palace in Amsterdam during the first day of the state visit to Netherlands. December 12, 2023.

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South Korea to pardon former leader Lee for corruption crimes

South Korea to pardon former leader Lee for corruption crimes

President Yoon Suk Yeol-led South Korean government has decided to grant a special pardon to jailed ex-President Lee Myung-bak. Seoul,UPDATED: Dec 27, 2022 11:47 IST South Korea ex-President Lee Myung-bak. (Photo: AP) By Associated Press: The South Korean government of President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday it will grant a special pardon to ex-President Lee Myung-bak, who was sentenced to a…

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The State Visit of the President of the Republic of Korea — Day 1

King Charles III, Queen Camilla, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, First Lady Kim Keon Hee, South Korean girl band Blackpink (Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa), Prince William, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, attend the State Banquet at Buckingham Palace on 21 November 2023 in London, England.

King Charles III is hosting South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee on a state visit from November 21-23.

It is the second incoming state visit hosted by the King during his reign.

📸: Yui Mok-WPA Pool / Getty Images

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North Korea's Foreign Minister Visits Russia to Discuss Military Cooperation Amid Rising Tensions

North Korea’s Foreign Minister Visits Russia Amid Growing Military Cooperation Choe Son-hui, the Foreign Minister of North Korea, has recently arrived in Russia and is scheduled to visit Moscow on Wednesday, as reported by Russian state-run media outlets. This visit comes on the heels of NATO’s confirmation that North Korean troops have been deployed in the Kursk region to assist Russian forces,…

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VP Harris, South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol to Visit NASA Goddard

Vice President Kamala Harris and Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday, April 25, to see firsthand the agency’s climate change work. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup will join them on tour. from NASA https://ift.tt/KAMICVn

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South Korea And Japan To Strengthen Bilateral Ties . #southkorea #일상 #se...

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[The Economist is Private UK Media]

Making someone do porridge (or “eat rice and beans”, to use the Korean expression) for expressing their political views is [...] not generally associated with [South Korea]. Yet Lee Yoon-seop, a South Korean poet, is currently languishing in prison for just this. The 68-year-old was sentenced to 14 months in November for threatening South Korea’s “existence and security”. His crime? Writing a poem in praise of the North.

The law used to prosecute Mr Lee, the National Security Act (nsa), is designed to protect South Korea from spies and traitors. But it also bans South Koreans from visiting or making contact with the North, reading or watching North Korean media or saying anything good about Kim Jong Un’s [...] regime. Though South Korea replaced its former military dictatorship with a democracy in 1987, such restrictions on free speech show that some of the generals’ autocratic tendencies endure.[...]

The NSA was modelled on a law designed to quash pro-independence activities during Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Since 2003 there have on average been more than 60 NSA prosecutions a year, often for pretty clear espionage cases. A businessman and an army officer were arrested for allegedly selling military secrets to North Korea. Soldiers in the South have been prosecuted under the act for endangering morale by distributing pro-North propaganda.

But the NSA is too often used to prosecute satirists and raid the homes and offices of leftists. Some cases have been ridiculous. Kim Myeong-soo, a PhD student, received six months in prison and a two-year suspended sentence for selling books on North Korea that were widely available in public libraries. A South Korean woman was given a two-year sentence, suspended for four years, for owning recordings of 14 North Korean songs.

This is not Mr Lee’s first offence. But the claim that the sexagenarian posed a threat to South Korea is absurd. His ode was published on a North Korean website. Access to such sites is banned by the NSA and forbidden from a South Korean IP address. [...] It consists of a list of South Korean problems that Mr Kim, in the poet’s view, would instantly solve given the chance.

Mr Lee’s real offence appears to have been believing his own nonsense. By contrast, police decided not to investigate a man under the draconian law for selling shirts with a smiling Mr Kim and the slogan “Walk a flowery path, comrade”. That was OK, officials said, because he was selling them to make a buck.

Worse, the issue points to a broader authoritarian tendency in the South. Its president, Yoon Suk-yeol, often demonises his political opponents by calling them “anti-state forces”, a phrase lifted directly from the NSA. Unfavourable press coverage is routinely labelled “fake news” and the offices of offending outlets have been raided. The administration and its allies have sued more press outfits for defamation—which in South Korea can be a crime even when the offending words are manifestly true—in Mr Yoon’s first 18 months in office than any of its three predecessors did in total.

Yet even a more liberal government would be unlikely to remove the NSA’s illiberal clauses. No administration has made a serious attempt to address it in 20 years. There is no significant political support for scrapping the law [...]. The current administration at least flirted with allowing South Koreans access to North Korean media, but recently abandoned the idea. [...]

Mr Yoon talks often about South Korea’s democratic values. They are at the heart of his pitch for the country to be a strategic link between East and West, developed and developing countries. For that reason alone he should take them more seriously. South Korea is undoubtedly a democracy, but not a terribly liberal one so long as it locks up old men for their dotty opinions. Reforming the NSA would be a better rebuttal to the sentiment Mr Lee expressed than banning it.

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Queen Máxima and King Willem-Alexander with the President of the Republic of Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, and Kim Keon Hee during the welcome ceremony at the Dam square in Amsterdam on the 1st day of the 2 day state visit to the Netherlands. December 12, 2023.

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The Princess of Wales arrives at Horse Guards Parade on day one of the President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol's state visit to the UK || 21 NOVEMBER 2023

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The Princess of Wales at Horse Guards Parade for day one of the President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol's state visit to the UK. 🇬🇧 🇰🇷

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British Royal Family - The Prince and Princess of Wales welcomes South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee at their hotel in central London on the first day of the state visit of President of the Republic of Korea | November 21, 2023

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The State Visit of the President of the Republic of Korea — Day 1

Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, attend a ceremonial welcome for The President and the First Lady of the Republic of Korea at Horse Guards Parade on 21 November 2023 in London, England.

King Charles III is hosting Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee on a state visit from November 21-23.

It is the second incoming state visit hosted by the King during his reign.

🎥: Mark Case / Getty Images