at least seven residents of North Korea executed over the viewing or distribution of K-Pop groups. This is reported to the New York Times with reference to the report of the non-governmental human rights group from Seoul TJWG, submitted to Wednesday, December 15.
According to the document, since 2015, the organization surveyed 683 refugees from the DPRK to compile a map of public executions and burial places. In his last report, the Group stated that there were 23 such executions under the reign of the current North Korean leader Kim Jun, while some of them were associated with the K-POP of the industry.
It is noted that the true extent of public executions in North Korea is still unknown, but the organizations have become aware of the seven executions for viewing and spreading video clips of South Korean musical performers. Six of them were held in the period from 2012 to 2014 in Hezane, a city with a population of more than 200 thousand people located near the border with China and the main channel for the smuggling of USB drives containing South Korean entertainment. The executions were forced to attend family members of the convicts, as well as other local residents. Each of the challenges sentenced to the highest extent was killed a total of nine shots produced by three soldiers.
Also, the publication with reference to the data of the Seoul Portal Daily NK, publishing information from sources in the DPRK, reports that in 2021, a rural resident and army officer for distribution or storage of K-Pop were publicly executed in several provincial cities.
The publication notes that from the moment of coming to power Kim Chen Yun, he strongly struggles with the spread of South Korean entertainment in the DPRK, including songs, films and television dramas, which, according to him, corrupt the minds of the inhabitants of North Korea. According to the law adopted by him, those who distribute prohibited content may threaten the death penalty.
Earlier, the North Korean leader Kim Jong Yun called the K-Pop corrupting young people “malignant tumor”. According to him, this “tumor” corrupts “clothes, hairstyles, speech, behavior of young North Koreans.”