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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His ‘social points’ be deep in the negative.. the state has spoken. all hail the state.
His ‘social points’ be deep in the negative.. the state has spoken. all hail the state.
In a few years, i might get executed for watching Blazing Saddles.
Yep, and electricity.
“ In a few years, i might get executed for watching Blazing Saddles. “
We might, but Blazing Saddles was a glorious roast of racism and many
other evil things.
This “Game” has another agenda entirely.
An horrific one.
“ What is it you think the show is promoting? It’s a violent spectacle, sure, but you understand that the game is supposed to be evil, right? “
I think it’s promoting the evil you admit it is supposed to “be”.
Duh.
Marxism is the bee’s knee’s for those who have never had to live under it.
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