James Heenan, head of the UN Human Rights Office for North Korea, told a Geneva briefing that the number of executions for both normal and political crimes had increased since COVID-era restrictions.
An unspecified number of people had already been executed under new laws imposing the death penalty for distributing foreign TV series, including the popular K-Dramas from South Korea, he added.
If we find you watching Alien: Earth, we will take you out.
Critical support for DPRK’s hardline anti-slop stance
I mean, censorship is something I’m really against in principle, but having a communist government be in charge of filtering all media entering the country and block all the Western reactionary slop for us, so I don’t have to see it if I don’t specifically go looking for it and go to the effort of bypassing security measures, sometimes sounds like a really good idea. I like the idea of being insulated from all the nonsense, and having things free of political messaging, or from a communist perspective, to watch and read instead. I mean, I do say a lot I want an Overton Window so skewed that Stalin looks like a liberal, so… blocking Western anti-communist slop is certainly a way for a country to make strides towards that.