Posted on 11/25/2021 10:58:39 PM PST by KingofZion
A smuggler who sold copies of Netflix’s smash hit series “Squid Game” in North Korea has been sentenced to death by firing squad, according to a report.
The man allegedly smuggled copies of the Korean-language show on USB drives from China into North Korea, where seven high-school students were caught watching the footage, sources told Radio Free Asia.
A student who bought one of the flash drives received a life sentence, while six others who watched the footage have been sentenced to five years of hard labor. Teachers and administrators at the school were fired or face forced labor in remote mines, sources told the outlet.
*** The plot of the show “parallels” the reality for some in North Korea, where those who earn too much money “could be executed” at any time, the source said.
“It not only resonates with the rich people but also with Pyongyang’s youth because they are drawn to the unusually violent scenes,” the man continued. “They secretly watch the show under their blankets at night on their portable media players.”
*** The government’s strike force against outside media — Surveillance Bureau Group 109 — then arrested the seven students in what’s believed to be the first time North Korea is applying the new law in a case involving minors, RFA reported.
Authorities then started scouring nearby markets for other memory storage devices and foreign media after the students were caught, one North Hamgyong source said.
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Play squid games, win squid prizes.
I watched one episode ... he SHOULD be shot
That bad, huh? I’ve never watched.
Wonder what Dennis (the Worm) Rodman would say about this?
I guess he got the “Red Light”...
A: They have nukes.
Our modus operandi is to remove governments who say they have nukes but don’t, and turn a blind eye to those governments who say they do have a nukes, and they do.
Me too. Would never watch another episode and disturbed by people who praise this dystopian shit as entertainment.
The funny thing is its confirmed as an anticapitalist parable but the creator.
I watched it though. It was good. The first episode is slow but after that it picks up. Did you watch the shoot ‘em up movies of the 80’s-90’s? It’s not any worse than that.
It’s the Democrats’ ideal utopian society.
At one point a refugee from North Korea describes how she fled to the south because she thought it would be better; another character asks her if it is, and she doesn’t answer...
North Korea’s leadership should be broadcasting that clip far and wide.
Geez don’t give Biden ideas for the unvaccinated
Damn! I wonder what they do if you lose a library book?
Finished watching it last night.
Not the best, but passably interesting andd entertaining.
A plot twist at the end.
The irony of the situation obviously escapes the mental midgetery of the NORKS!
Show about poor Koreans risking life and limb in brutally violent games to win money....
Hey, let’s show everyone how brutal we are too!
One of the storylines in The Squid Game, involves a defector from North Korea, that’s probably why the Norks are so sensitive about it.
Okay popcorn show. But a facile elementary school moral and critique
Fifty years from now, in the country Formerly Known As The United States
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