Catholic priest cleared of pro-N. Korea charges over remarks about 2010 island shelling
Social affairsAug 16, 2017
Prosecutors cleared a Catholic priest of pro-North Korea charges Wednesday, nearly four years after he made remarks some accused of sympathizing with the communist nation's deadly shelling in 2010 of a South Korean island. Park Chang-shin, a senior priest at the diocese in the southwestern city of Jeonju, made the controversial remarks at an event in November 2013, saying it is natural for the North to shell the western border island of Yeonpyeong because the South and the US held military exerc