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domestic publishing company publishes a memoir of North Korean President Kim Il-sung as it is, causing controversy. Eventually, Kyobo Bookstore, the largest bookstore in Korea, stopped selling these memoirs.
This is reporter Han Sang-woo.
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is a memoir of North Korean President Kim Il-sung, published on the 1st, along with the century.
A total of 8 books cost 280,000 won.
It contains President Kim's childhood to the anti-Japanese movement, published by the North Korean Workers' Party of Korea in 1992, and the original text was transferred to the original by a domestic publishing company.
Some civic groups have filed a request for temporary injunction to ban the sale or distribution to the court, claiming that it was a book that manipulated the history and glorified the Kim Il-sung family.
Kyobo Bookstore, the largest bookstore in Korea, has also completely stopped sales.
Kyobo Bookstore said, "There is an opinion that purchasing it as a'transfer expression' along with the century may result in punishment, so we will stop selling it to protect customers."
In fact, the Supreme Court concluded that the 2011 century was a transfer expression that violated the National Security Law.
Earlier, the Ministry of Unification approved this book to be provided only to organizations authorized to handle special materials such as North Korean research purposes, not to the general public.
[Cha Deok-cheol/Ministry of Unification Deputy Spokesperson: I would like to tell you that we are currently grasping the publication process in detail and detail.] With the
century, sales are still in progress at other online bookstores other than Kyobo Bookstore, so about 100 copies have been sold so far. Lost.