SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Supreme Court said on Thursday that conscientious objection is a valid reason to refuse mandatory military service, a landmark change in the court's decades-long stance that is expected to impact about 930 pending cases.
The full-bench decision overturns about five decades of precedents that punished conscientious objectors for refusing mandatory military service and is in step with changing South Korean attitudes as relations with North Korea thaw.
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