article_snippet: Having material in support of Pyongyang is not illegal, but distributing material propagandizing the isolated communist regime is banned in the South.
article_snippet: A further charge of violating South Korea's National Security Law, which bans South Koreans from publicly sympathizing with the North Korean government, was being considered.
article_snippet: As part of their investigation their have also requested activist attacker Kim Ki-jong's past travels to South Korea's — seven times between 1999 and 2007 — during a previous era of inter-Korean cooperation, when Seoul was ruled by a liberal government.
article_snippet: Divided peninsula: South Korean protesters shout slogans as South Korean protesters hold the photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center and right, the late leaders Kim Jong Il, second from left, and Kim Il Sung, left .
article_snippet: Outspoken: Kim Ki-jong reportedly has a history of public outbursts.
article_snippet: The website of the Woorimadang activist group that Kim Ki-jong heads describes the group's long history of anti-U.S. protests.
article_snippet: Photos show Kim Ki-jong and other activists rallying last week in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul to protest the U.S.-South Korean military drills, which are to run until the end of April.
article_snippet: North Koreastate-controlled media crowed Thursday that Kim Ki-jongreflected the South Korean people's protests against the US for driving the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war because of the annual military drills with Seoul as a major obstacle to their goal of a unified Korea.
highlights_snippet: Kim has visited North Korea several times and had books from the country .
  