Daily Mail: DPRK man to be shot for bringing a copy of "Squid Game" from China
A resident of North Korea was sentenced to death after he smuggled the South Korean series "Squid Game", which topped the international top streaming platform Netflix, into the territory of the republic. About this writes the Daily Mail. It is known that a North Korean from Hamgyeong-Pukdo province returned home from China with a digital copy of the show, stored on a hidden USB flash drive, and then distributed it to his buddies and was caught by law enforcement officials. The young man was subsequently executed. Meanwhile, another student who bought a copy of the show was sentenced to life imprisonment, and six others who only watched the show were sentenced to five years of hard labor.
Searches are currently being conducted at the educational institution. According to some reports, the school director, the youth secretary, and the class teacher have been fired. It is possible that they could be exiled to the coal mines as punishment.
Since the beginning of this year, North Korea has had a strict ban on the importation of films, shows, and TV series from the West and South Korea into the country. The corresponding law provides for the maximum penalty of death for viewing, storing, or distributing such materials. On October 16, it was reported that the official North Korean media outlet Arirang rated the TV series "Squid Game." According to North Korean journalists, the popularity of "Squid Game" can be attributed to the fact that the series "exposes the realities of capitalist culture in South Korea" and shows "a society of inequality where people are treated as pawns of the rich." "Squid Game" topped the Netflix service in 90 countries. The series is about characters who, faced with financial hardship, go to an island and participate in games of survival. It is noted that this show could become the most successful on the platform and overtake such hits as "The Witcher" and "The Bridgertons."
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