By This may not be good for these soldiers’ careers:
South Korea’s defense minister threatened to punish a group of military law officers Thursday for filing a petition with the Constitutional Court to lift a ban on 23 books labeled as being pro-North Korea.
“It was not an appropriate act by the law officers, as they are tasked with enforcing discipline within the military,” Minister Lee Sang-hee said during a regular audit of his ministry by the parliamentary defense committee. [Yonhap]
The ban seems kind of pointless considering that I am willing to bet that people can probably find these books available on the Internet to download.
4:52 pm on October 23rd, 2008 1
Not only doesn’t the ban work, but it increased the sales of the banned books because of the curiousity factor. The MND needs to figure out that it is living in a democracy…not an Orwellian state.
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