Sobbing young North Korean girls are publicly punished and humiliated in rare footage by officials of Kim Jong Un’s regime – for a completely trivial reason
- Resurfaced footage showed girls being punished in public
- Their only crime was watching unauthorized media from South Korea
- A young girl was seen being dragged away in handcuffs
Newly emerged footage shows North Korean girls being publicly humiliated and punished for watching South Korean media.
The tape shows a public shaming session in a large auditorium, where dozens of young North Koreans line up in front of military personnel and are reprimanded for their “crimes.”
A young girl, identified only as Choi, was dragged into the crowd, crying.
According to a translation by KBS Media, which obtained the footage, she said: “I made the mistake of listening to and spreading impure published propaganda.”
She is then led away in handcuffs.
The tape shows a public shaming session in a large auditorium, where dozens of young North Koreans stand in lines in front of soldiers and are reprimanded for their “crimes”
The government of Kim Jong Un (pictured) has had an iron grip on information flowing in and out of North Korea for decades
A young girl, identified only as Choi, was seen crying as she was dragged before the crowd
She said: ‘I made the mistake of listening to and spreading impure published propaganda’
Kim Jong Un’s government has maintained an iron grip on information flowing into and out of North Korea for decades, explicitly banning its citizens from watching foreign news, music, movies and TV shows.
Anyone caught violating the strict restrictions could face serious consequences, including prison and even death.
In 2023, South Korea’s Reunification Ministry reported that defectors witnessed public executions of young adults who watched K-dramas and listened to K-pop.
Despite this, efforts continue to challenge North Korea’s control over its people.
Flash Drives For Freedom, a charity that sends out USB sticks containing Western and South Korean media, interviews with defectors and Korean-language Wikipedia pages, claims to have sent out more than 136,686 USB sticks containing counter-propaganda material.
According to the website: ‘The discs are smuggled into the country in various ways.
‘A healthy black market distributes the drives throughout North Korea. The majority of North Koreans have access to devices that can read USB drives, SD cards, and microSD cards, with the use of an adapter.’
