South Korea has a free speech problem bigger than its recent ban on sending leaflets into North Korea. North Korea’s official autobiography of Kim Il Sung was sold to the public within South Korean borders by a small publishing company in Seoul, Minjok Sarangbang, since February. A month after this was noticed by the press, the police raided the establishment on 26 May. This is despite the fact that the eight-volume text, first released in Pyongyang in 1992, which covers the late leader’s life from childhood until 1945, is available for free online on North Korean websites. Those websites are, not surprisingly, censored in the South.
South Korea’s needless censorship of North Korean material | East Asia Forum
