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A priest goes to jail for visiting North Korea

Pastor Han Sang Ryol giving a speech in late August, when he visited North Korea.

A cleric from South Korea will have to spend five years in prison for traveling to North Korea and praised its leaders.

The South Korean laws prohibiting unauthorized contact with the communist country from the north.

Han Sang-ryol was arrested in August after returning from a two-month stay in the neighboring country.

His trip was when there was a strong tension between the two Koreas after the South blamed the North to have sunk one of its warships in March.

Source: BBC .

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