 Kim first came to widespread attention in May 1970 with his poem "Five Bandits", which led to him being arrested under the Anti-Communist Law, though the poem says nothing about either communism or North Korea.The title of "Five Bandits" is a reference to the "Five Traitors" who signed the treaty turning Korea into a Japanese protectorate in 1905.In "Five Bandits", Kim described how about "ten years ago" the eponymous bandits came to dominate South Korea, rapaciously devouring everything as they set out to loot the country.