- Resurfaced images show girls being punished in public
- His only crime was watching unauthorized South Korean media.
- A young woman was seen being dragged away in handcuffs
Resurfaced images reveal how North Korean girls are publicly humiliated and punished for watching South Korean media.
The film shows a public humiliation session in a large auditorium, where dozens of young North Koreans are lined up in front of soldiers and reprimanded for their “crimes.”
A young woman, identified only as Choi, was seen crying as she was dragged in front of the crowd.
According to a translation by KBS Media, which obtained the footage, she said: “I made the mistake of listening to and distributing impure published propaganda.”
Then they take her away in handcuffs.
The film shows a public humiliation session in a large auditorium, where dozens of young North Koreans are lined up in front of soldiers and reprimanded for their “crimes.”
Kim Jong Un’s government (pictured) has had tight control over information entering and leaving North Korea for decades.
A young woman, identified only as Choi, was seen crying as she was dragged in front of the crowd.
She said: “I made the mistake of listening to and distributing impure published propaganda”
Kim Jong Un’s government has had tight control over information entering and leaving North Korea for decades, expressly banning its citizens from consuming foreign news, music, movies and television.
Anyone caught violating these severe restrictions can face serious consequences, including imprisonment and even death.
In 2023, South Korea’s Ministry of Unification reported that defectors witnessed public executions of young adults who watched K-dramas and listened to K-pop.
Despite this, efforts to combat North Korea’s control over its population have continued.
Flash Drives For Freedom, a charity that sends out USB sticks filled with Western and South Korean media, as well as interviews with defectors and Korean-language Wikipedia pages, claims to have sent out more than 136,686 USB sticks filled with anti-propaganda material.
According to its website: ‘Units are smuggled into the country using many different methods.
‘A healthy black market distributes the drives throughout North Korea. Most North Koreans have access to devices that can read USB drives, SD cards and microSD cards via an adapter.’