UN: North Korea executes people for watching foreign films and TV

BBC:
The North Korean government is increasingly implementing the death penalty, including for people caught watching and sharing foreign films and TV dramas, a major UN report has found.

The dictatorship, which remains largely cut off from the world, is also subjecting its people to more forced labour while further restricting their freedoms, the report added.

The UN Human Rights Office found that over the past decade the North Korean state had tightened control over “all aspects of citizens’ lives”.

“No other population is under such restrictions in today’s world,” it concluded, adding that surveillance had become “more pervasive”, helped in part by advances in technology. more

15 Comments on UN: North Korea executes people for watching foreign films and TV

  1. UN Human Rights Office? Who anointed them as “experts” on human rights? Based on the history of the UN, there is not much credence that I can lend their report to what is puportedly, and by outside observation, a closed society.

    At most, I’ll give this a “plausible” only because I want to believe the worst of them.

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  2. I don’t watch them, either. Hollywood has been dead to me for years. I’ve seen a couple of vids from last night’s Emmy Awards; a sad bunch of perverted leftists congratulating each other on their perversions.

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