- North Korean man was executed for listening to Ok-pop, in response to report
North Korea has publicly executed a 22-year-old man for listening to and sharing Ok-pop as a part of Pyongyang’s ruthless crackdown on Western tradition, in response to a human rights report launched by South Korea.
One testimony within the report speaks of how a younger man from South Hwanghae province was publicly executed in 2022 after listening to 70 South Korean songs, watching three movies, and distributing them – an act of defiance towards the totalitarian dictatorship’s legal guidelines towards Western tradition.
The report, which was printed by South Korea’s unification ministry yesterday, additionally detailed North Korea’s ample efforts to regulate outdoors data move, because it falls beneath the umbrella of non-socialist tradition.
The doc compiles testimonies from almost 650 North Korean defectors.
The ban on Ok-pop is a part of a cruel marketing campaign to protect North Koreans from the ‘malign’ affect of the West that started beneath the previous chief, Kim Jong-il and intensified beneath his son Kim Jong-un’s rule.
A report trying into human rights in North Korea carried out by South Korea reveals how a person in his early 20’s was publicly executed after listening to South Korean pop music. That is a part of a crackdown by the authoritarian regime on Western influences
Regardless of North Korea’s harsh measures, the affect of South Korean and basic Western tradition is an unstoppable power
In accordance with the US government-funded Radio Free Asia, the regime was cracking down on ‘capitalist’ trend and hairstyles, focusing on skinny denims and T-shirts bearing international phrases, in addition to dyed or lengthy hair.
Different examples of Western practices North Koreans might be punished for embrace brides sporting white clothes, girls sporting shorts, sporting sun shades and consuming alcohol from wine glasses – customs that are seen as South Korean.
Specialists say that South Korean widespread tradition seeping into the North may pose a menace to its extremist ideology.
However regardless of North Korea’s harsh measures, the affect of South Korean and basic Western tradition is an unstoppable power.
38 North, a web site devoted to providing analyses on North Korea, stated its residents have more and more extra choices to devour outdoors data and media than ever earlier than.
Whereas they was once restricted to modified radios and tv units, they’ll get hold of motion pictures on DVD’s and USB’s and also can entry them via computer systems and smartphones, prompting authorities officers to improve their strategies of management.
One North Korean defector stated that ‘the pace of South Korean tradition influencing Norht Korea is critically quick. Younger folks observe and duplicate South Korean tradition, and so they actually love something South Korean’, as reported by The Guardian.
In latest weeks, North Korea has dropped a whole bunch of balloons stuffed with faeces and trash onto South Korea in retaliation for propaganda leaflets scattered over the communist regime.
North Korean defectors have been identified to ship balloons to the North aspect containing anti-regime leaflets, and have additionally reportedly despatched USB reminiscence sticks of Korean pop music and movies, that are prohibited in North Korea.
