spy trial

The trial of Mr Chông Kyông-hak (Jong Kyong Hak in the DPRK convention) has proceeded without any specific difficulties, judging from the Yonhap piece carried by Chosun Ilbo, except that judges are said to have been a bit at loss because it's been so long since such cases of directly dispatched spies have been tried in ROK courts. An interesting piece of info concerns Mr Jong's master's thesis in DPRK in 1989. His topic was "Study of reactionary character and fragility of the South Korean puppet army" (남조선 괴뢰군의 반동성과 취약성에 관한 연구), in which he stated for example that "because the South Korean army is a reactionary army in which individualism and mammonism (hwanggûmmannûngjuûi) are rampant, the class enmity between superiors and underlings must be induced and [the army] rebuked." Categories at del.icio.us/hunjang: DPRK