Posted on 02/07/2026 4:02:23 PM PST by Libloather
North Korea is executing schoolchildren for watching South Korean TV shows and listening to K-Pop, including Netflix’s hit series “Squid Game,” according to Amnesty International.
Escapees told the human rights group that teenagers and even middle school students have been publicly executed, sent to labor camps or subjected to brutal public humiliations for consuming foreign media banned by the regime.
The accounts are based on 25 in-depth interviews conducted in 2025 with North Koreans who fled the country between 2012 and 2020, the organization said.
Most were between ages 15 and 25 when they escaped.
One interviewee said people, including high school students, were executed for watching “Squid Game” in Yanggang Province near the Chinese border.
Radio Free Asia separately documented an execution for distributing the show in neighboring North Hamgyong Province in 2021.
“Taken together, these reports from different provinces suggest multiple executions related to the shows,” Amnesty wrote.
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Yep. When they returned, they would be the most patriotic, conservative citizens ever.
If they survived.
Yes. That’s the joke.
I don’t either. They don’t even try anymore. Hopefully, when they start to fully implement AI, their propaganda will get more cogent.
When that satanic regime finally falls we should absolutely force stateside leftists in the thousands to tour their gulag system and try some tree bark cuisine for a couple days.
Does a country fall off the face of the earth for 70 years by being decent and normal?
Squid Game came out in 2023, so folks who fled between 2012 and 2020 are making it up.
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South Korean TV shows and listening to K-Pop are the shows prior to release of the squid game
Any country that executes people with antiaircraft guns, hungry dogs, and wood chippers would not hesitate to shoot kids for whatever reason.
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“I don’t think they execute kids for watching TV or listening to music.”
I’d bet $5 that the “re-education camps” are not much fun, but it probably beats an AA gun in a field.
Just another Communist success story proving why the US should choose that form of government over Capitalism.
They absolutely execute citizens for consuming foreign media, usually political material.
This has been documented by intelligence agencies, governments, NGOs etc for over a decade.
They tortured and killed a young American citizen sinply for taking a photo of a propaganda photo of theirs, so sure they would routinely kill their own.
The operative word I am refuting is “schoolchildren”. Yes, I believe they executed adults for distributing South Korean media. I truly do not beleive they have executed schoolchildren for watching the Squid Game and I will again note that they referrnce interviewing people who escaped between 2012 and 2020. The Squid Game came out in late 2024.
Thus the article is bogus.
Title of the article: North Korea executed schoolchildren for watching ‘Squid Game’
I do not intend to continue this arguement with idiots who cannot read and understand simple English.
My question is, why lie about North Korea?
Squid Game is all about the evil excesses of capitalism. I would think NK would dig that.
That face of communism.
Incorrect. Squid Game came out September 17, 2021.
And what is the basis for your “belief”? Do you believe that Communist evil doesn’t extend to children? If you knew rhe cruelty that Orientals are capable of, you wouldn’t doubt it.
Read up on the torture that Koreans, Chinese and Vietnamese have inflicted in just the last century.
My own father had a business dinner with Koreans in the 80s where they RIPPED THE SKULL FROM A LIVING MONKEY and dined on its brains, at the dinner table calmly and coolly.
And those were SOUTH Koreans, the good guys, allies, so imagine what the Commie version is capable of. We should start calling you Naive Steve round here.
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