TL:DR – “Kim Jong Un Executes Students for Watching Squid Game: Shocking News Update”
- North Koreans face brutal punishments, including execution, for consuming South Korean media like Squid Game and K-pop.
- Young children are forced to witness public executions as warnings against foreign media.
- Wealthier individuals often bribe officials to avoid severe penalties.
- Amnesty International highlights the repression and ideological control enforced by the regime.
- Squid Game‘s themes resonate with North Koreans, exposing the harsh realities of life under dictatorship.
- The strict “Law on the Elimination of Reactionary Thought and Culture” aims to eliminate foreign influences.
Kim Jong Un ‘executes schoolchildren for watching Squid Game’ | News World
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North Koreans Executed for Watching Squid Game
People in North Korea are being publicly executed for watching South Korean shows like Squid Game and listening to K-pop, it’s been revealed.
Even schoolchildren are facing brutal punishment for consuming popular media from their southern neighbor, Amnesty International discovered. Those who managed to escape Kim Jong-Un’s regime reported that young children are being forced to watch public executions as a warning against foreign media consumption.
Poorer individuals face the most severe punishments, while those with connections from wealthier families often bribe officials to escape the death sentence.
Sarah Brooks, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director, stated that testimonies from escapees reveal the severity of the country’s ‘dystopian’ laws. She emphasized, “Watching a South Korean TV show can cost you your life—unless you can afford to pay.”
The Death Regime in North Korea
The North Korean leader runs a death regime, and Brooks noted that the authorities criminalize access to information in violation of international law, allowing officials to profit off those fearing punishment. This situation represents repression layered with corruption, which most devastates those without wealth or connections.
Brooks highlighted that the government’s fear of information has placed North Koreans into an ‘ideological cage.’
Despite strict laws, South Korean content continues to infiltrate North Korea, including popular dramas like Crash Landing on You, which is set in the dictatorship. Interviewees told Amnesty that those who listen to bands like BTS or watch shows like Squid Game have faced execution.
In 2021, a student who smuggled copies of Squid Game into the country from China was sentenced to death by firing squad. Sources indicated he was caught after selling copies to others, including fellow students, as reported by Radio Free Asia (RFA).
One person who purchased a copy received a life sentence, while friends who watched it were given five years of hard labor, RFA reported.
Sources revealed that Squid Game’s dystopian universe, where indebted people compete against each other in deadly children’s games, resonates deeply with North Koreans living under dictatorship.
North Korea’s Law on Reactionary Thought
North Korea’s ‘Law on the Elimination of Reactionary Thought and Culture’ came into effect in 2020 to crack down on the influx of Western materials such as movies, books, and music, with a particular focus on South Korean media.