{"id":2718,"date":"2025-09-13T01:35:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/north-korea-executes-people-for-sharing-foreign-films-and-tv-un-report\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T01:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:35:51","slug":"north-korea-executes-people-for-sharing-foreign-films-and-tv-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/north-korea-executes-people-for-sharing-foreign-films-and-tv-un-report\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea executes people for sharing foreign films and TV: UN report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>\u2018Mass surveillance\u2019 tech has enabled world\u2019s most restrictive state to exert \u2018control in all parts of life\u2019, UN Human Rights Office says.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>North Korea has further tightened its grip on its population over the past decade, executing people for activities like sharing foreign TV dramas, according to a major United Nations report.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Human Rights Office said on Friday that tech-enabled state repression under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/9\/north-koreas-kim-heralds-new-icbm-rocket-engine-test-as-significant\">Kim<\/a> dynasty, which has governed with absolute power for seven decades, had grown over a decade of \u201csuffering, repression, and increased fear\u201d.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/9\/north-koreas-kim-heralds-new-icbm-rocket-engine-test-as-significant\">N Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un heralds new ICBM rocket engine test as \u2018significant\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/5\/kim-xi-hail-bond-as-north-korea-says-it-will-protect-chinas-interests\">Kim, Xi hail bond as North Korea says it will protect China\u2019s interests<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/1\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-inspects-new-missile-production-line\">North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un inspects new missile production line<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>\u201cNo other population is under such restrictions in today\u2019s world,\u201d concluded the agency\u2019s report, which is based on interviews with more than 300 witnesses and victims who had fled the country and reported the further erosion of freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo block the people\u2019s eyes and ears, they strengthened the crackdowns. It was a form of control aimed at eliminating even the smallest signs of dissatisfaction or complaint,\u201d recounted one escapee, cited in the report.<\/p>\n<p>James Heenan, head of the UN Human Rights Office for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/7\/29\/north-korea-says-trump-must-accept-its-status-as-a-nuclear-weapons-state\">North Korea<\/a>, told a Geneva briefing that the number of executions for both normal and political crimes had increased since COVID-era restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>An unspecified number of people had already been executed under new laws imposing the death penalty for distributing\u00a0foreign\u00a0TV series, including the popular K-Dramas from South Korea, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The clampdown has been aided by the expansion of \u201cmass surveillance\u201d systems through technological advances, which have subjected citizens to \u201ccontrol in all parts of life\u201d over the past 10 years, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Heenan also reported that children were being made to work in forced labour, including so-called \u201cshock brigades\u201d for tough sectors such as coal mining and construction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re often children from the lower level of society, because they\u2019re the ones who can\u2019t bribe their way out of it, and these shock brigades are engaged in often very hazardous and dangerous work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the UN indicated that the forced labour could, in some cases, amount to slavery, making it a crime against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The sweeping review comes more than a decade after a landmark UN report documented executions, rapes, torture, deliberate starvation, and the detention of between 80,000 and 120,000 people in prison camps.<\/p>\n<p>The new report covered developments since 2014, noting the government\u2019s adoption of new laws, policies and procedures providing a legal framework for repression.<\/p>\n<p>UN rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement: \u201cIf the DPRK [Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea] continues on its current trajectory, the population will be subjected to more suffering, brutal repression and fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s Geneva diplomatic mission and its London embassy have not yet commented on the report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Mass surveillance\u2019 tech has enabled world\u2019s most restrictive state to exert \u2018control in all parts of life\u2019, UN Human Rights Office says. 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