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According to a North Korean source, in Chongjin City, North Hamgyong Province last week, seven high school students were arrested by the authorities for watching the popular South Korean drama “Squid Game”. Dismissal; a man suspected of smuggling and selling a photo album was sentenced to death.
According to foreign media reports, smugglers smuggled “Squid Game” from China to North Korea and sold it as USB. Later, it was reported to the authorities that seven high school students had watched the Korean drama “Squid Game” on Netflix, which was banned locally in North Korea, through illegal channels. After being arrested by the authorities, the student who purchased the USB storage of the Korean TV series “Squid Game” was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the other students who watched it together were sentenced to five years of labor reform; and the smuggler was shot and dealt with. In addition, the principals, youth secretaries, and head teachers of the high school students involved were also dismissed from the school and expelled from the party. It is reported that they are likely to be exiled to mines for mining.
North Korea promulgated the “Reactionary Ideological and Cultural Exclusion Act” in December last year, which aims to prevent foreign culture from destroying North Korea’s socialist system, and prohibits North Koreans from viewing, preserving, or disseminating movies or music from South Korea and other capitalist countries. The worst is punishable. death penalty. People familiar with the matter pointed out that the authorities attached great importance to this incident, which became the first case in which a teenager has been convicted since North Korea promulgated the “Reactionary Ideological and Cultural Exclusion Act” in December last year.
Source: Radio Free Asia
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