US EditionDefectors Testify to Executions by Firing Squad of N. Koreans for Watching S. Korean TV Dramas
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North Korean defectors testify about executions, ongoing abuses at Seoul event
North Korean defectors offered first-hand testimony about the Kim Jong Un regime’s persistent human rights crimes in Seoul on Wednesday, describing violations ranging from bans on travel and discrimination against people with disabilities to the execution of those who distributed K-pop. The two-day public sessions at the U.N. Human Rights Office in South Korea are […]
Defectors testify to executions by firing squad of North Koreans for watching South Korean TV dramas
Watching or distributing South Korean TV dramas or K-pop songs is being punished by execution by firing squad in North Korea, with one young man shot to death in public on such charges, North Korean defectors testified Wednesday. The testimonies were given during public sessions hosted by the U.N. Human Rights Office in Seoul to shed light on the human rights situation in North Korea over the past decade. Kim Il-hyuk was among several North Kore…
Refugees from the communist dictatorship struggle with the new beginning in South Korea. The cultural shock is too great, too foreign the performance society. Two North Koreans tell how they managed to do it anyway.
The consumption of South Korean series is seen as an existential threat to the Kim Jong-un regime, which responds with public executions and other extreme punishments that fail to curb the growing cultural impact of the neighboring country among North Korean youth, according to testimonies presented by deserters this Wednesday in Seoul, reviews the AFP. This week, [...] La entrada Pionyang executing for seeing K-dramas, but failing to stop the c…
consumption of South Korean series is seen as an existential threat to the Kim Jong-un regime in North Korea, which responds with public shootings and other extreme punishments that fail to curb the growing cultural impact of the neighboring country among North Korean youth, according to testimonies presented by defectors this Wednesday in Seoul. This week, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Seoul bega…
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