45 years later, granddaughter clears family name in spy case

The late Park Gi-hong, who was wrongfully jailed on espionage charges in the early 1980s, has been cleared of wrongdoing more than four decades later after a court overturned his conviction in a retrial sought by his granddaughter. The Busan District Court on Tuesday acquitted Park of violating the National Security Act, ruling that his remarks expressing views favorable to North Korea did not constitute benefiting the enemy. The two Koreas remain technically at war, as the 1950–53 Korean War en

By The Korea Herald