North Korea executes seven people for watching South Korean videos, says rights group
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Kim Jong-un has presided over the public execution of seven people accused of watching or distributing South Korean videos, a rights group has said. It follows claims in May 2021 by South Korea-based dissident-run online newspaper Daily NK that the North Korean authorities had publicly executed a man for illegally selling CDs and USBs filled with South Korean films and music videos. The study, titled Mapping Killings under Kim Jong Un: North Korea's Response to International Pressure, also found that Pyongyang had started to carry out capital punishment in private in response to greater international scrutiny of human rights abuses, in order to stop information filtering out. “This does not mean the human rights situation there is improving - state-led killings continue to take place in ways that may not be as publicly visible as before.” North Korea has denied the existence of prison camps and accused Western nations of using criticism of human rights as part of a hostile policy towards it.
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