The Seoul High Court recently posthumously cleared a former high school teacher, Seong Gi-ho, who had been convicted as a North Korean spy in 1972. The court determined that the evidence leading to his original conviction was unlawfully acquired. Seong had been found guilty of failing to disclose intelligence related to North Korean espionage activities. He was acquitted of charges under both the National Security Act and the now-defunct Anti-Communism Act. Throughout his ordeal, Seong consistently asserted that investigators from the Army Security Command, the precursor to the Defense Security Command, had extracted his confession through coercive methods. This significant ruling arrives over five decades after his initial sentencing.
Source : The Korea Herald
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