North Korean Teens Sentenced to Hard Labor for Watching South Korean Dramas, Video Shows

The rare footage, believed to have been filmed during the Covid-19 pandemic, was released by a South Korean research group and shows the teens being publicly punished.

• Rare footage appears to show North Korean teenagers sentenced to hard labor for watching and distributing South Korean dramas, according to a South Korean research group.
• The video, believed to have been filmed during the Covid-19 pandemic, shows the teens standing on a stage in an amphitheater filled with hundreds of people.
• The teens were reportedly caught 'watching and distributing puppet regime’s recordings,' a term North Korea often uses to refer to South Korea.
• Each teen was sentenced to 12 years of labor, according to the narrator of the footage.
• The video was obtained and distributed by the Seoul-based South and North Development Institute (SAND Institute), which works with North Korean defectors.

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