Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld used to show a satellite photo that told the story of the Korean Peninsula in one image: North Korea at night — pitch black. South Korea — ablaze with light. The difference wasn't just electricity. It was freedom. North Korea's playbook is well-known: block outside information, prevent emigration, control all foreign contact. Yes, just about everyone knows about North Korea's controls, but what about South Korea's? The South Korean government recently started tearing down its own information wall when it overturned decades of law by allowing South Koreans to access information from North Korea. South Korea is the free part of the peninsula, yet in dealing with the North, it has maintained laws that mirror Pyongyang's controls, even if enforcement is inconsistent. North Korea's controls are total, violent and enforced through imprisonment, forced labor and execution, while South Korea's restrictions are legalistic, selective, inconsistently enforced and subject to judicial review. The National Security Law (which prohibits contact with