North Korean Man Sentenced To Death Over Selling & Smuggling Copies Of Squid Game In The Country
A North Korean nan is to be executed for bringing back a copy of Netflix's Squid Game into the country.
We all know how North Koreans don't really kid around and they've taken some very nominal matters very seriously. A man in the country was sentenced to death for bringing back a copy of Netflix's Squid Game into the country.
The apparent smuggler is a student who had gone to China and brought a digital copy of the famous Korean show on a USB flash drive. However, after selling copies to several people including fellow students he was caught out by the country's surveillance services.
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109 Sangmu, the government's surveillance service, caught the students after allegedly receiving a tip-off from an unidentified source.
It is understood he will now be executed by firing squad - one of the grim methods by which characters in the squid game series are also killed. Others students who watched the series and received the copy have also received severe punishments.
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According to Radio Free Asia, the one student who bought a copy of the drive has since received a life sentence, while six others who watched the show have been sentenced to five years of hard labour.
The headteacher of the school, the students' teachers and the school administrators are all being held responsible. These individuals have not only lost their jobs, but according to a source talking to Radio Free Asia: "they were also expelled from the party. It is certain that they will be sent to toil in coal mines or exiled to rural parts of the country."
A law enforcement source told the publication, 'This all started last week when a high school student secretly bought a USB flash drive containing the South Korean drama Squid Game and watched it with one of his best friends in class.'
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According to the source, a new North Korean law on the 'Elimination of Reactionary Thought and Culture' has led to a crackdown. The law carries a maximum penalty of death for watching, keeping, or distributing media from capitalist countries, particularly from South Korea and the US.
However, this has been applied to the minors for the very first time.
They have taken this fictional series way too seriously.
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