Summary
Two 16yearold teenagers were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea for watching Kpop content, films and clips. The images showing public condemnation of young people were released by the Korean BBB.
According to the agency, North Korea sentences teenagers to 12 years of forced labor for watching Kpop
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Two 16yearold teenagers were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea for watching contentfilms and clips, of KPop. The images showing the public condemnation of young people were published by BBB Korean. South Korean entertainment, including television, is banned in the neighboring country.
The images provided by South and North Development (SAND) The institute for the BBC is said to be from 2022 and shows the two 16yearolds in handcuffs in front of hundreds of students in an openair stadium. All of the students, including the two 16yearolds, are wearing face masks, suggesting the filming was filmed during the Covid pandemic. It is also possible to imagine uniformed police officers reprimanding the boys for “not thinking deeply about their mistakes.”
The video also features a narrator repeating North Korean state propaganda. “The lazy culture of the puppet regime has spread even among teenagers. AndThey are only 16 years old, but they have ruined their own future“ says the narrator.
According to the BBC, the clip was distributed in North Korea for ideological education and to warn citizens against watching “decadent footage.” Portal was unable to independently verify the footage.
Choi Kyonghui, President of SAND The University of Tokyo political science doctor, who defected from North Korea in 2001, believes younger people are questioning the “North Korean mindset.”
“I believe this video was edited around 2022. Which is problematic.” Kim Jong Un (North Korea's leader) is that young Millennials and Generation Z have changed their way of thinking. “I think he is working on returning to the North Korean style,” he told Portal.
Source: Redação Terra