As part of a new culture war, Kim created new laws in December announcing that anyone caught possessing or engaging in South Korean content could be sentenced to five years of hard labor at a work camp. K-pop smugglers themselves could face execution, and those even caught writing, singing, or speaking in a “South Korean style” could face up to two years of internment at a work camp. A North Korean man was murdered back in May after he got caught collecting bootleg South Korean entertainment.
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