The South Korean series ‘The Squid Game’ has become a Netflix hit and one of the productions that has caused the greatest impact worldwide in recent times. So much so that its popularity has even reached such hermetic territories as North Korea, despite the fact that the US streaming platform it is not available in the country led by Kim Jong-un.
In the Asian nation neither the visualization nor the distribution of unauthorized productions is allowed and failure to comply with these rules carries severe penalties, including the death sentence. In this situation a man who distributed episodes of the series created by Hwang Dong-hyuk and which was detained after authorities surprised a group of seven students who were watching her.
This is how he details it Radio Free Asia (RFA), medium that explains that the arrested person would have sold the students a pendrive that contained the chapters of ‘The Squid Game’. Based on this information, the man would have obtained these copies in China, from where he transferred them to North Korea.
Severe convictions
For this fact, the North Korean authorities have sentenced the smuggler to be executed by firing squad. In addition, the young man who acquired the pendrive with the episodes of the series received a conviction of life imprisonment. The other six people who saw ‘The Squid Game’ will have to serve a sentence of five years of forced labor.
The punishment of the North Korean authorities for the viewing of prohibited content by these young people also included the teachers and school administrators to which the students went. They were all laid off and face a banishment “to work in remote mines”, according to RFA.
“This all started last week when a high school student secretly bought a USB flash drive containing ‘The Squid Game’ and saw it with one of his best friends in class,” said a police source in the province of North Hamgyong to Radio Free Asia. “The friend told other students, who were interested and shared the USB memory,” adds this medium, which details that the youths were arrested by the 109 Vigilance Group, specialized in illegal videos.
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