publicly executed a 22-year-old man for listening to , it has been claimed. It’s understood the authoritarian did so as a display of power as it doubled down on the “malign” influence of the West. The savage punishment was detailed in a report issued by South Korea’s unification ministry, which had compiled the testimonies of nearly 650 North Korean defectors.
The report outlines how the young man from the Provence of South Hwanghae was publicly killed in 2022 after he listed to 70 South Korean songs, watched three films, and shared them around, MailOnline. His actions were considered an act of defiance against the dictatorship’s laws against Western culture. North Korea’s ban on K-pop started under the nation’s former leader, Kim Jong-il as part of a brutal campaign to guard North Koreans from Western culture, which has only intensified under Kim Jong-un’s rule.
As part as the totalitarian regime’s crackdown on the West, jeans and other Western fashion, dyed hair, particular haircuts, and items of clothing donning foreign words are also banned. Earlier this year, 75-year-old gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh had his jeans blurred out when North Korea aired a 2010 episode of his Garden Secrets show. The dad-of-two that anyone could think of him as “subversive”.
The Asian dictatorship also has strict rules over hairstyles, with only 15 dos receiving the state’s approval, which you could describe as timeless. Daily Star asked AI what some of the West’s bi.
