Dear MEL Topic Readers,
North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN
finds
In 2011, Kim Jong Un, a grandson of the founder Kim Il-sung, became
North Korea’s Supreme Leader. He promised to grow the economy and further
develop its nuclear weapons. However, according to the interviews by the UN with
escapees from North Korea, food is scarce, and the death penalty is being used
more often, including for those who just watched or shared foreign media
content, such as movies or TV dramas. Once sentenced to death, violators of the
prohibitive law are shot to death by firing squads in public. Also, more people
from poor families are recruited into physically demanding and dangerous labor
tasks, such as construction or mining projects. If they die in an accident, their
death is honored as a sacrifice to the supreme leader and the nation. Nowadays,
fighting for Russia in Ukraine is another likely option to earn glory. Even if the
task is dangerous and life-threatening, some people might prefer working in a factory,
mine, or battlefield to being starved or shot to death in their hometown. In
order to bring this case to the International Criminal Court, it needs to be
referred by the UN Security Council, but Russia and China, two of the five permanent
members of the council, are unlikely to support such a move.
Read the article and learn about how prohibitive North Korea is of
Western media.
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