North Korea has sentenced a man to death for snuggling and selling of the Netflix series "Squid Game".
The man was also sentenced along side seven others students who took part. One the student who bought the series received a life sentence, while six others who watched the show have been sentenced to five years hard labour, reports Radio Free Asia.
Also, teachers and school administrators have been fired and face banishment to work in remote mines or themselves.
This event occurred as a result of last week when a Hugh school student secretly bought a USB flash drive containing the South Korean drama Squid Game and watched it with one of his best friends in class.
The friend told several other students, who became interested, and they shared the flash drive with them. They were caught by the censors in 109 Sangmu, who had received a tipoff. The censors are the government strike force that specializes in catching illegal video watchers, known officially as Surveillance Bureau Group 109.
This is the first time the North Korea government is applying the newly passed law on the "Elimination of Reactionary Thought and Culture," in a case involving minors. The law carries a maximum penalty of death for watching, keeping, or distributing media from capitalist countries, particularly from South Korea and the U.S.
Also, it is rumoured that amongst the seven arrested students, one with rich parents was able to avoid punishment because they bribed the authorities with U.S. $3,000.
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