The Ministry of National Defense recently canceled a decision to discipline and discharge a former military judicial officer from the Army for petitioning against the military's ban on "seditious books," according to the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission on Tuesday.
The ministry's disciplinary punishment for the former officer was canceled on Oct. 24 and his forced discharge was nullified on Oct. 31, said the civil rights watchdog.
The case dates back to July 2008 when the ministry banned service members from reading 23 books, including "Bad Samaritans" written by Chang Ha-joon, a professor of economics, which it then considered "subversive" due to pro-North Korean and anti-government content.
The book "Bad Samaritans" and its author professor Chang Ha-joon (Yonhap)
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