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UN Report: North Korea Executes Citizens for Sharing Foreign Films
- A recent report by the United Nations highlights that North Korea has intensified executions for individuals caught watching or sharing foreign films and television series, including South Korean dramas.
- The increase in executions comes after several laws enacted since 2015, with crackdowns becoming more severe from 2020 onward, alongside expanded surveillance and restrictions affecting nearly every part of citizens' daily lives.
- Drawing on testimonies from over 300 defectors collected throughout the last ten years, the report also reveals a rise in forced labour, public executions by firing squad intended to instill fear, and increasing food shortages.
- UN Human Rights Chief Volker Trk described the past ten years as a lost decade and warned that the population will face more suffering and repression if the current trajectory continues.
- North Korea's rejection of the UN resolution and ongoing support from China and Russia suggest that human rights abuses and crackdowns on personal freedoms will persist.
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NBC New YorkNorth Korea is executing people for sharing foreign films and TV, U.N. says
The North Korean government has intensified repression inside the isolated, nuclear-armed state, expanding electronic surveillance and publicly executing people for sharing foreign media, the United Nations said in a major new report. “No other population is under such restrictions in today’s world,” said the report, which was released Friday by the U.N. Human Rights Office. The 16-page report examined the state of human rights in North Korea si…
Share series or films from other countries: in North Korea this is punishable by the death penalty, according to a United Nations report, which also denounces forced labour for children.
The new report is based on more than 300 interviews with people who escaped North Korea in the last 10 years
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