North Korea: Rare footage shows teens sentenced to hard labour over K-drama
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Footage obtained by BBC Korean shows two 16-year-old boys handcuffed and sentenced to hard labour.

In 2020, however, Pyongyang enacted a law to make watching or distributing South Korean entertainment punishable by death.

A defector previously told the BBC that he was forced to watch a 22-year-old man shot to death. He said the man was accused of listening to South Korean music and had shared films from the South with his friend.

  • jarfil@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    The clip has reportedly been distributed in North Korea for ideology education and to warn citizens not to watch “decadent recordings”.

    The video includes a narrator who is repeating state propaganda. “The rotten puppet regime’s culture has spread even to teenagers,” says the voice, in an apparent reference to South Korea. “They are just 16 years old, but they ruined their own future,” it adds.

    The boys were also named by officers and had their addresses revealed.

    Just a guess, but in Western rotten puppet regime clutures it might be illegal to doxx even some NK teenagers who have ruined their own future by watching decadent recordings…