A plan by the former chairman of the ruling People Power Party (PPP) to create a breakaway party is losing luster as the attention of the public is drawn by ex-Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon’s political debut as the interim chief of the PPP.
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The Ministry of Justice on Tuesday announced plans to deprive convicted child sex offenders of their rights to choose where to live after they are released from jail. The Justice Ministry will propose a new bill aimed at restricting the civil rights of convicted child sex offenders at a Cabinet meeting, following a legislative notice to collect public opinions beginning from Thursday. The government is looking to des.
Policymakers must defy increasingly effective and sophisticated Chinese disinformation efforts if they are to get a realistic grasp of the issues and keep East Asia's hot spots from exploding into war.
Whether chemical castration should be ordered as punishment on more child sex offenders is emerging as a key issue in legal circles, after the prosecution recently requested a court to order such a penalty for serial rapist Kim Geun-sik. These discussions reflect long-standing concerns that punishment ordered on child sex offenders in the past did not match their brutal crimes and that existing systems to monitor released offenders have insufficiently reduced repeat offenses.