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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Maira Butt

North Korean teenagers ‘executed for watching Squid Game’ as regime wages war on TV and pop music

Schoolchildren are being executed by North Korea for watching K-pop dramas and TV shows, including Netflix’s Squid Game, according to harrowing new testimony shared with Amnesty International.

The group included 25 individual in-depth interviews with North Koreans, including 11 who fled the country between 2009 and 2020. Most of the interviewees were aged between 15 and 25 at the time of fleeing.

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