Kim Jong-un’s firing squads have publicly executed at least seven North Koreans in the last ten years for watching or sharing K-pop, rights group claims
North Korea has executed at least seven people by firing squad in the last ten years for sharing or watching South Korean K-pop, a rights group has claimed.
Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator, has previously described the genre as a ‘vicious cancer’, with the executions coming as part of a crackdown on the music.
Seoul-based Transitional Justice Working Group conducted interviews with 683 North Korean defectors over six years – since 2015 – to map places where North Koreans were killed and buried in state-sanctioned public executions.
