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Rare footage shows North Korean teens being sentenced in front of hundreds of their peers, getting 12 years of hard labour for watching South Korean videos

www.bbc.com North Korea: Rare footage shows teens sentenced to hard labour over K-drama

Footage obtained by BBC Korean shows two 16-year-old boys handcuffed and sentenced to hard labour.

North Korea: Rare footage shows teens sentenced to hard labour over K-drama

In 2020, however, Pyongyang enacted a law to make watching or distributing South Korean entertainment punishable by death.

A defector previously told the BBC that he was forced to watch a 22-year-old man shot to death. He said the man was accused of listening to South Korean music and had shared films from the South with his friend.

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