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Home Panorama North Korea executed man for distributing K-pop 30-06-2024 11:59 AM Ammon News - A 22-year-old North Korean was publicly executed for watching and sharing South Korean films and music, a new report claims, highlighting Pyongyang’s desperate attempts to stem the flow of outside information and culture. The case, detailed in the 2024 Report on North Korean Human Rights released by South Korea’s unification ministry on Thursday, compiles testimonies from 649 North Korean defectors. According to an unnamed defector’s testimony, the young man from South Hwanghae province was publicly executed in 2022 for listening to 70 South Korean songs, watching three films, and distributing the media, falling foul of a North Korean law adopted in 2020 that bans “reactionary ideology and culture”. The Guardian

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North Korea executed man for distributing K-pop

30-06-2024 11:59 AM

Ammon News - A 22-year-old North Korean was publicly executed for watching and sharing South Korean films and music, a new report claims, highlighting Pyongyang’s desperate attempts to stem the flow of outside information and culture.

The case, detailed in the 2024 Report on North Korean Human Rights released by South Korea’s unification ministry on Thursday, compiles testimonies from 649 North Korean defectors.

According to an unnamed defector’s testimony, the young man from South Hwanghae province was publicly executed in 2022 for listening to 70 South Korean songs, watching three films, and distributing the media, falling foul of a North Korean law adopted in 2020 that bans “reactionary ideology and culture”.

The Guardian

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