A country executes one of its citizens because he listened to the music of a neighboring country
Pyongyang publicly executed a 22-year-old citizen for listening to and sharing South Korean pop music.
According to testimonies published in the “Human Rights in North Korea” report issued by the Ministry of Unification in Seoul, last Thursday, the man was publicly executed, in 2022, for listening to 70 South Korean songs, in addition to watching and distributing three films, according to what was reported by the newspaper. The British Independent.
The report - a collection of testimonies from 649 North Korean defectors - highlights Pyongyang's brutal crackdown on Western influence and the flow of information to the isolated country.
The ban on South Korean pop music, to protect citizens from the "malignant influence" of Western culture, was tightened under a new law adopted by North Korea in 2020, banning "reactionary ideology and culture."
This law calls for people who watch, listen to, or distribute outside entertainment and information programs to be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison and hard labor.
Other "retrograde" practices covered by the law include some South Korean customs, such as brides wearing white dresses, the groom carrying the bride, and wearing sunglasses.
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