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Seoul court says expulsion of pro-N. Korea American was legitimate

By KH디지털2

Published : July 7, 2016 - 13:10

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A local court ruled Thursday the government's decision to expel a Korean-American woman for making pro-North Korean remarks during her on-stage talk shows here was legitimate.

The Seoul Administrative Court dismissed the suit filed by Shin Eun-mi against the chief of a local immigration office, seeking nullification of the expulsion order.

The 55-year-old dodged indictment last year after being accused of making comments sympathetic to the North Korean regime at talk shows she hosted in Seoul and other provincial cities in 2014.

Korean-American Shin Eun-mi walks toward the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in central Seoul on Dec. 5, 2014, to ask for a meeting with President Park Geun-hye. She was expelled from South Korea in 2015 for sympathizing with the North. (Yonhap) Korean-American Shin Eun-mi walks toward the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in central Seoul on Dec. 5, 2014, to ask for a meeting with President Park Geun-hye. She was expelled from South Korea in 2015 for sympathizing with the North. (Yonhap)
The Ministry of Justice, instead, expelled Shin and barred her from entering South Korea for five years.

"Shin's words and behavior could have threatened national interests or public security," the court said. "Shin's personal interests that have been hurt by the expulsion order do not seem to be more significant than the public interest at stake here."

Still, the court said Shin did not violate the National Security Law as she did not directly praise or propagandize the North's ideology.

Shin's South Korean co-host Hwang Sun received a six-month jail term, suspended for two years, for similar charges.

Hwang was acquitted of violating the security law by holding the talk shows but was found guilty of violating the law by praising the North at another lecture held in 2010. (Yonhap)

 

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