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North Korea executed 30 teenagers for watching South Korean dramas: reports
According to South Korean news outlets, around 30 middle schoolers were publicly shot last week in North Korea for watching South Korean shows.
- North Korea executed 30 middle schoolers for watching South Korean dramas, according to reports.
- The shows were reportedly stored on USBs that were floated over the border by North Korean defectors.
- North Korea has been accused of using harsh penalties for those caught watching South Korean media.
According to reports from South Korean news outlets Chosun TV and Korea JoongAng Daily, around 30 middle schoolers were publicly shot last week for watching South Korean dramas.
The shows were reportedly stored on USBs that were floated over the border by North Korean defectors.
South Korean officials did not comment directly on the report, but according to Korea JoongAng Daily, one unnamed South Korean Unification Ministry official told reporters that "it is widely known that North Korean authorities strictly control and harshly punish residents based on the three so-called 'evil' laws."
One of these is North Korea's Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Act, which forbids individuals from disseminating media that originates in South Korea, the US, or Japan.
This is not the first instance of North Koreans reportedly being killed for their association with content from their southern neighbor.
According to a 2022 UN Secretary-General report, a man in Kangwon Province was killed by a public firing squad after his neighborhood watch unit saw him selling digital content from South Korea.
A video was released earlier this year showing two teenagers being sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for watching a K-pop video.
A defector told the Korea Herald that in 2020, North Korean parents were forced to sign a pledge stating they would ensure their children do not watch "impure video content" at home.
Trump should write his best buddy another love letter and tell him that this isn't cool.
