{"id":56078,"date":"2023-08-25T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=56078"},"modified":"2023-08-24T15:12:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T06:12:27","slug":"north-korea-hands-down-severe-punishments-watching-south-korean-dramas-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-hands-down-severe-punishments-watching-south-korean-dramas-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea hands down severe punishments for watching S. Korean dramas, movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Korea has recently been increasing the severity of punishments for watching \u201cimpure videos\u201d such as South Korean dramas and movies, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, a source in North Pyongan Province told Daily NK on Aug. 14 that a man in his twenties living in Cholsan County was sent to a political prison camp in July after being accused of watching South Korean videos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As it is almost impossible to survive in political prison camps, North Koreans regard being sent to such camps as a death sentence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past, the man had been sentenced to reform through labor for watching South Korean videos. This time, however, he was sentenced to time in a political prison camp, leading his friends and family to express their deep frustration at the excessive punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their belief that the man was excessively punished stems from the fact that he was accused of watching South Korean videos, not importing or distributing them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In late 2020, North Korea enacted the \u201cReactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Act,&#8221; also known as the anti-reactionary thought law. Article 27 of the Act, which is entitled the \u201cCrime of Distributing Puppet (South Korean) Ideology and Culture,\u201d stipulates that \u201cany person who views, listens to, or possesses South Korean movies, video recordings, compilations, books, songs, drawings, or photographs, or who brings in and distributes South Korean songs, drawings, photographs, or designs shall be sentenced to five to 10 years of reform through labor. If the severity of the crime is deemed high, the offender shall be sentenced to reform through labor for 10 years or more.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on the law, the man should have been sentenced to five to 10 years of reform through labor or more than 10 years if his crime was deemed severe; however, he was sentenced to time in one of North Korea\u2019s political prison camps instead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another man arrested in Sinuiju for watching porn\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The source told Daily NK that another man in his twenties was arrested in Sinuiju in June for watching pornography. This man was also sentenced to time in a political prison camp in the court\u2019s final ruling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the authorities searched the man\u2019s house, they found that his portable storage device contained not only pornography but also many South Korean dramas and movies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some had expected the man to be sentenced to reform through labor, but when he was sentenced to time in a political prison camp, people expressed concern that the authorities are intensifying their punishments of violators of the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBefore, even if you were caught watching South Korean dramas or movies, you could sometimes be released if you made use of your connections or paid bribes to the crackdown team,\u201d the source said. \u201cRecently, however, it\u2019s difficult to avoid punishment even if you pay over USD 1,000.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On July 20, the central government also ordered the propaganda departments of provincial, city, and county party committees to strengthen ideological education regarding the influx of foreign information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the source, the order included the following instructions: a) strengthen the monolithic ideology system of the Workers&#8217; Party; b) systematically carry out ideological education; c) intensify systematic surveillance and reporting systems such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">inminban <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(neighborhood watch unit); d) strengthen efforts to ensure impure material such as puppet (South Korean) videos and pornography cannot be accessed; and e) intensify education related to the socialist revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given this, North Korea\u2019s government looks set to intensify its ideological education and crackdowns on violators of the anti-reactionary thought law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Translated by Annie Eun Jung Kim. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources who live inside North Korea, China and elsewhere. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230814-4\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has recently been increasing the severity of punishments for watching \u201cimpure videos\u201d such as South Korean dramas and movies, Daily NK has learned. 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