Shot for ‘illegally distributing movies’
p2pnet news | Movies:- “North Korea executes citizens for illegally copying and distributing movies.”
Some kind of sick joke? Not according to a Digg entry.
It links to a Radio Free Asia post from last month quoting Kim, a defector to South Korea who, and a South Korean democracy spokesman.
Says the post:
“A lot of people get together in groups and watch South Korean drama on DVDs. DVD players are available at foreign currency stores in North Korea,” he said, adding that in some parts of North Korea people have good reception of Chinese TV signals and watch South Korean drama directly.
But such apparently innocent pleasures can carry a high price tag.
“There have been two or three reports of public executions of North Korean young people in major cities including Chungjin, as punishment for having illegally copied and distributed South Korean visual material,” said Kang Chul Hwan, vice-chairman of the Seoul-based Committee for the Democratization of North Korea.
“It is not an overstatement to say that the Kim Jong Il regime is waging war on the South Korean TV drama,” he said, adding that the North Korean authorities have intensified surveillance and searches to prevent South Korean videos from entering North Korea.
“Video footage, secretly taped and smuggled out at great risk, capture two outdoor trials,” posted northkoreanrefugees.com.”Each of these public trials is followed immediately by executions. No time is wasted on appeals. The rumors are true. And this website has received permission to post a short video clip from news footage released recently to television networks.”
Meanwhile, “North Korea is expected to register an Internet country address this year as the isolated communist state takes cautious steps towards global information technology,” says Agency France-Presse, adding:
“The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is likely to approve North Korea’s country domain ‘.kp’ at a meeting in Los Angeles starting in October …”
Also See:
Digg – North Korea executes citizens for illegally copying and distributing movies, September 2, 2007
Radio Free Asia – North Korea Cracks Down on ‘Korean Wave’ of Illicit TV, August 17, 2007
northkoreanrefugees.com – Video Proof: Public Executions in North Korea, 2005
Agency France-Presse – NKorea to get Internet code, August 17, 2007
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September 3rd, 2007 at 12:17 pm
WOW!
Now that is harsh, if it is true!
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Its South Korean influences they hate, not piracy
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
They should maybe just make their lives hell be suing them liek they do here
September 4th, 2007 at 2:55 am
“Its South Korean influences they hate, not piracy”
That is an even MORE stupid reason to shoot someone!
September 6th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Our Dear Fearless Leader provides for us all. If it is good for us to hear, DFL will tell it to us. If it is good for us to see, DFL will show it to us.
Dear Fearless Leader is our father, our teacher, our protector. We would be lost without DFL.
Anyone who disobeys Dear Fearless Leader must be purged, for the disobedient one destroys the precious harmony provided to us by DFL.