Death sentence for squid game smuggling?

A North Korean high school student has been sentenced to death for smuggling Squid Game, the most hit series in Netflix history, on a USB memory stick. Six high school students who watched the smuggled squid game were given life sentences and five years of hard labor.

This high school student smuggled the squid game on a USB memory stick in China and sold it to another male high school student. This high school student watched a squid game with five friends. A high school student who smuggled the game was sentenced to death by firing squad, a high school student who bought a smuggled squid game was sentenced to life in prison, and five people who tried it back were sentenced to five years of hard labor.

The seven high school students involved in the squid game smuggling and city hall smuggling, as well as the teachers and school administrators who were in the position of supervising these high school students, are being charged with the crime. do.

According to Radio Free Asia, which reports on Asian countries where the government is restricting access to news agencies, the squid game is starting to spread among the people through USB memory or SD card despite the North Korean authorities’ efforts to exclude foreign media. do. It explains that the dystopian rationale in the squid game that a person excluded from society demands a large amount of prize money, fights each other in a children’s game, and the loser dies is more sympathetic in North Korea, where people in dangerous jobs or in unstable positions are many.

The North Korean authorities are risking anything that leads to the Korean media. In a survey of 200 North Korean defectors, 90% said they had watched foreign media while in North Korea, and 75% said they knew someone who was punished for watching foreign media. Related information can be found here.