SOUTH Korea said Friday it will reclassify North Korea’s longbanned state newspaper as general information, easing public access, in the latest overture from the administration of dovish President Lee Jae Myung. South Korea remains officially at war with its nuclear-armed neighbour, and a decades-old national security ban on Pyongyang’s propaganda remains in place.
Critics including President Lee say South Koreans are politically mature enough to judge such material, which often idolizes the North’s leadership, for themselves.
They also argue the ban amounts to unnecessary censorship in a vibrant democracy that is one of the most wired and educated countries in the world.
Seoul’s government convened on Friday an inter-agency meeting and confirmed a consensus among the relevant parties regarding the “reclassification of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper from special material to general material”, it said in a statement.
AFP
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