Human rights advocates call Seoul’s anti-leaflet bill an ‘embarrassment’
“[The law] will be an embarrassment to the international community,” Lee Jung-hoon, South Korea’s former ambassador-at-large on North Korean human rights, said at a webinar hosted by defector-lawmaker Ji Seong-ho on Monday. “It will go against all the principles of what is embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
Unusually for the U.S. Congress, the Congress is voicing its concern as South Korea is pushing through parliament a bill that would criminalize the sending of leaflets to North Korea. It says it could undermine democratic principles in Seoul as well as human rights in Pyongyang.
U.S. Representative Chris Smith, a co-chair of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, called the legislation “insane”, saying that it is damaging to human rights and democratic principles
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