World IN BRIEF : SOUTH KOREA : Pair Sentenced for Illegal Trip North
From Times staff and Wire reports
A South Korean student who made a publicized but illegal trip to North Korea last year was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Seoul court. Im Su Kyong, 21, and her co-defendent, Father Moon Kyu Hyun, who was given an eight-year term, were sentenced under South Korea’s stringent national security laws for their trip last July to a youth festival.
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