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North Korea executed 30 teenagers for watching South Korean dramas: reports
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Greg Scarlatoiu, the executive director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, told BI that “under the circumstances created by the intensified crackdown on information from the outside world, initially conducted under the pretext of COVID, these reports are definitely plausible.”
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 2024 report on North Korean Human Rights, released by South Korea’s Ministry of Unification, claimed that phones in North Korea are regularly checked for “South Korean-style language” and that wearing white wedding dresses is punished for being “reactionary”.
Despite eyewitness accounts compiled by Amnesty International, the North Korean government has denied that public executions take place in the country.
North Korea is still technically at war with its southern counterpart, with their conflict in the 1950s ending in a truce rather than a peace treaty.
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.
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