(1) A person who, in wartime, disseminates or broadcasts, false, exaggerated, or specifically focused news or information which is intended to cause public concern and alarm or to shake the morale of the people or diminish the country’s resistance to the enemy or who carries out any activity which could damage the fundamental national interest shall be sentenced to a penalty of imprisonment for a term of five to ten years.

(2) If the act:

1. has been committed through propaganda;

2. has been aimed at military personnel; or

3. has been the result of an agreement with a non citizen; the penalty shall be imprisonment for a term of ten to twenty years.

(3) If the act has been committed as the result of an agreement with the enemy, a penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed.

(4) A person who, in wartime, carries out actions aimed at causing the depreciation of foreign currency or to influence the value of public bonds in a manner which would jeopardize national resistance to the enemy, shall be sentenced to a penalty of imprisonment for a term of five to ten years and to a judicial fine of up to three thousand days.

(5) If the act referred to in paragraph four has been committed as a result of an agreement with a non citizen, the penalty shall be increased by one half, and if it is the result of a conspiracy with the enemy, the penalty shall be doubled.