South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld a prison sentence for an activist convicted of violating the country’s National Security Act (NSA) by engaging in illegal contact with North Korean operatives abroad.

The case concerned four activists who prosecutors say met operatives from a cultural exchange bureau of Pyongyang’s Workers’ Party of Korea in China in May 2017, and again in Cambodia in April 2018.

South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld a prison sentence for an activist convicted of violating the country’s National Security Act (NSA) by engaging in illegal contact with North Korean operatives abroad.

The case concerned four activists who prosecutors say met operatives from a cultural exchange bureau of Pyongyang’s Workers’ Party of Korea in China in May 2017, and again in Cambodia in April 2018.