Posted on 11/24/2021 1:41:19 PM PST by algore
A North Korean nan is to be executed for bringing back a copy of Netflix's Squid Game into the country.
The smuggler, a student, is said to have returned from China with a digital version of the hit South Korean series stored on a hidden USB flash drive.
But after selling copies to several people including fellow students he was caught out by the country's surveillance services.
It is understood he will now be executed by firing squad - one of the grim methods by which characters in the series are also killed.
It is believed that the arrests took place in the country's North Hamgyong province which borders with China over the last week.
Radio Free Asia reported that one student who bought a copy of the drive has since received a life sentence, while six others who watched the show have been sentenced to five years hard labor.
North Korea has a strict ban on material from the West and South Korea being allowed into the country and officials are now carrying out searches at the students' school to find anymore foreign media.
Some teachers are said to have been fired or could face being banished to work in remote mines as punishment.
'This all started last week when a high school student secretly bought a USB flash drive containing the South Korean drama Squid Game and watched it with one of his best friends in class,' a law enforcement source told the publication.
The source said the pair discussed the series with friends who became interested and bought copies from him.
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This is seems like a poor decision...
After taking a look at Squid Game,
their reasoning for taking such extreme action is not entirely without merit.
See for yourselves.
If this is true, it’s crazy insane.
Not hard to see the Democratic Party going this way someday. Sooner than you think possible.
“Some teachers are said to have been fired or could face being banished.”
Hmm. The actions resulting from Original Sin are so boring. Firing and banishing people has been going on since, well, Adam was fired from working in the Garden and banished.
Nothing on Netflix is worth me getting the death penalty
Insanity is the rule in N.Korea. Some have been tied to a stake and executed by mortar fire or anti-aircraft guns. Possessing a cell phone gets you the death penalty if you are not among the leadership.
Even school officials with no knowledge of the incident are being punished. It’s an unforgiving country.
I know NK is the worst but how much of this is Western/CIA propaganda.
You read these stories but there are never names, locations or photos.
Someone posted the school officials are being punished and they did not even know about it.
I do not trust any source today
those balloons they send over from the south should have them. Don’t you need a computer?
I certainly hope the south takes off a whole summer when the Nork regime falls, hopefully w/o war. Take all the kids into families for the summer. Feed them, let them watch TV and youtube. The south owes them even if their economy stops for a few months.
That country developed into that hellhole as a direct result of Marxism and the media here continues to protect it and push it as does our universities. Those people should be ostrasized no different from neo-Nazis and the KKK but they aren’t thanks to the media which misleads the public. Me personally I have a cousin in England who is a Marxist and I refuse to have anything to do with her. The second I learned she supported that crap I never talked to her again and that was around 1986, and she is still a Marxist from what I heard.
Listen to interviews of defectors and read their stories. There are either 100’s of people all telling the same lies OR this regime is the most brutal and oppressive in human history.
I believe them.......
sounds like massachusetts
Watching a game justifies a firing squad?
There is a narrated, abbreviated version of Squid Game on Youtube. It is one of the most depraved and soulless things I’ve ever watched.
Watch what the game promotes.
A society might be forgiven for taking harsh measures to prevent their children from going down that path.
Hi.
“It is one of the most depraved and soulless things I’ve ever watched.”
Have you ever been to a DNC national convention?
5.56mm
—”Some teachers are said to have been fired or could face being banished to work in remote mines as punishment.”
Do they need any more help in the remote mines?
I have a long list of public officials that need some training...
“ Watching a game justifies a firing squad? “
Not a Game.
An abomination.
Not entirely un plausible as a matter of NK National Defense.
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