On May 22, the court authorities of south Korea delivered the verdict of not-guilty upon Kim Jong Sa and Ryu Song Sam, Koreans in Japan who were prosecuted on spy charges when they were studying in south Korea in the 1970s.

The then puppet Defence Security Command illegally took them away and practiced all kinds of tortures against them for nearly a month, forcing them into confession of passing a military secret to an operative belonging to an organization of Koreans in Japan embraced by the north.

Based on this, the fascist authorities cooked up a spy case and sentenced the indictees to 10 years in prison in June, 1978.

The authorities made no scruple of linking core democratic figures to those students and sentencing them to death on charges of plotting internal disturbances.

In November 2009 the south Korean Committee for Settling the Past History for Truth and Reconciliation and other bodies argued that those victims were taken away against law and forced into confession and asserted that their crimes are not acknowledgeable.

The victims, therefore, filed a lawsuit which resulted in the recent court judgment of not-guilty on them.