As part of Kim Jong Un’s campaign against ‘foreign influences,’ his new secret squads will murder anyone caught viewing pornographic material.
According to evidence from a defector included in a recent study, enforcers are attempting to ban foreign television, hair cuts, and even birthday parties.
Pyongyang charges the ‘gruppa’ or ‘non-socialist groups’ with investigating infractions of the Communist Party’s official ideology.
The study states, “The groups operate as a covert tool for the government to achieve its ultimate goals of pervasive surveillance and the ability to thoroughly monitor every resident.”
As part of Kim Jong Un’s campaign against ‘foreign influences,’ his new secret squads will murder anyone caught viewing pornographic material. Pictured: In December, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un addresses a Workers Party of Korea meeting (file photo)
Foreign media, particularly ‘Western’ media, is tightly restricted in North Korea, where the population is brainwashed to unquestionably support Kim Jong Un and his governing regime. Any dissent is punished harshly.
The tyrant considers South Korea as an American puppet state, and he is extremely sensitive to any of its media crossing the border from China, for fear of its potential impact.
Any indication that someone may have consumed media from the South has resulted in severe penalties for some time.
According to a report by the Seoul-based Database Centre for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB), Kim is tightening his grip on the gruppa.
Citizens are prosecuted for offenses ranging from desertion, drug trafficking, smuggling, and begging to absenteeism, traffic violations, adultery, dying one’s hair, religious activities, and participation in “decadent culture,” which might include parties.
A testimonial featured in the paper stated, “It is worse than the Kim Jong-Il era.”
A greater number of barbed wire fences have been erected along the border. Additionally, there were orders to open fire on anyone crossing the border.
“I have heard of people being executed for disseminating impure cultural materials. One individual was executed for viewing pornography and engaging in prostitution at his residence after Kim Jong Un became office.
In this photo issued on January 1, 2023, Kim Jong Un meets with representatives of the Korean Children’s Union (KCU) under North Korea’s governing Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, North Korea.
On Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, North Koreans visit and pay reverence to the statues of the late presidents Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. Sunday, January 22, 2023 will mark the Lunar New Year.
First, they examine your attire. Then, the type of music you listen to, the videos you see, and your hair color […] According to the report, the defector stated that birthday parties cannot be held in groups.
When people are intoxicated, they will invariably end up singing one or two South Korean songs, according to the advice given often.
According to the study, secret spies are more concerned with the importation and distribution of South Korean media.
USB flash drives are sometimes used to smuggle into the country illegal music, films, and television shows, such as “Squid Game” and “Crash Landing on You.”
One of the measures employed by “non-socialist groups” is to disconnect the power to the homes of individuals suspected of viewing forbidden media, preventing them from removing DVDs or videotapes from the payer and concealing their “guilt.”
Punishments include demotion at work, termination, and even placement in a reeducation or labor camp. In the most extreme situations, such as being found to have viewed pornographic material, individuals could be shot by firing squad.
In North Korea, consuming sexual media content is punishable by a lifetime of “reform through labour” or perhaps execution by firing squad. According to the testimony of a second defector, seeing regular South Korean or American media will result in less than ten years of “reform through labor.”
It was reported earlier this month that four students were dismissed from university and forced to work in a coal mine because they sounded like they had watched too much foreign television by employing Southern accents or phrases.
It is assumed that the students picked up the manner of speech via consuming material banned by the ruling party.
On January 22, 2023, in Pyongyang, North Koreans visit the statues of former president Kim Il Sung and chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill to celebrate the lunar new year.
North Korea enacted the Rejection of Reactionary Thought and Culture Act in December 2020, which punishes citizens with up to two years of forced labor for speaking, writing, or singing in a South Korean style.
Residents who are discovered spreading foreign media information face the death sentence and a maximum of 15 years of hard labor.
In October, two teens were killed under this statute for selling USB devices containing South Korean television series or films. They were executed with a firing squad.
Both teenagers, believed to be between 16 and 17 years old, were executed in front of scared townspeople on an airfield near the border city of Hyesan. Their deaths were not reported until two months later, in December.
A third youngster of the same age was murdered alongside the other two for the murder of his stepmother, with townspeople being informed that the acts were “equally evil” as media distribution.
The ruling Communist regime uses informants recruited from the general populace to apprehend and report people who are selling the drives to the authorities.
In the instance of the two adolescents, one of these spies reported them for selling USB flash drives carrying the programs in the local marketplace.
In North Korea, such killings are uncommon but not unheard of, and are primarily used to intimidate the populace into submission when officials are concerned about rule-breaking.
A source in Hyesan stated that North Korean youth spotted watching foreign films risk being transported to a disciplinary labor center.
As a punishment for failing to discipline their children, parents who commit a second offense will be transported to a correctional camp for five years.
Even juveniles who are discovered distributing or selling South Korean films face the death penalty, according to the source.
In December 2021, it was revealed that at least ten citizens had been executed by firing squad in the preceding decade for viewing South Korean content.
According to reports, some officials were also executed using anti-aircraft weapons.
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