- Resurfaced footage showed girls being punished in public
- Their only crime was watching unsanctioned media from South Korea
- One young girl was seen being dragged away in handcuffs
Resurfaced footage has revealed how North Korean girls get publicly humiliated and punished for watching South Korean media.
The tape shows a public shaming session in a large auditorium, where scores of young North Koreans are lined up in front of military men and berated for their ‘crimes.’
One young girl, identified only as Choi, was seen weeping 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.’
She is then led away in handcuffs.
The tape shows a public shaming session in a large auditorium, where scores of young North Koreans are lined up in front of military men and berated for their ‘crimes’
Kim Jong Un’s (pictured) government has had an iron grip on information coming in and out of North Korea for decades
One young girl, identified only as Choi, was seen weeping 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 an iron grip on information coming in and out of North Korea for decades, expressly forbidding its citizens from consuming foreign news, music, films, and TV.
Anyone caught violating the severe restrictions can face serious consequences, including imprisonment and even death.
In 2023, South Korea’s Unification ministry reported that defectors witnessed public executions of young adults who watched K-dramas and listened to K-pop.
Despite this, ongoing efforts to combat North Korea’s control over its population have been ongoing.
Flash Drives For Freedom, a charity that sends over USB sticks filled with Western and South Korean media, as well as interviews with defectors and Korean-language Wikipedia pages, claims to have sent over 136,686 USB sticks filled with anti-propaganda material.
According to its website: ‘The drives are smuggled into the country using many different methods.
‘A healthy black market distributes the drives throughout North Korea. The majority of North Koreans have access to devices that can read USB drives, SD cards, and microSD cards, using an adapter.’
