North Korean parents to get prison time for letting their kids watch Hollywood, foreign films: report

North Korean parents will beryllium sent to situation if their kids are caught watching foreign films conscionable once, according to a caller report. 

Parents were antecedently fto disconnected pinch a stern informing if their children were recovered to beryllium successful possession of illicit films smuggled into nan country. Now, parents are being told astatine "inminban," aliases compulsory vicinity watch meetings crossed nan country, that location will nary longer beryllium leniency. 

In this undated photograph provided connected July 23, 2020 by nan North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits a caller chickenhearted workplace being built successful Hwangju County, North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Per Radio Free Asia, teens caught watching Hollywood aliases South Korean films will beryllium sent to situation camps for 5 years while their parents will spell to a "labor center" for six months. 

A root from nan North’s South Pyongan state told nan U.S.-funded outlet that parents were told: "education for children originates astatine home." 

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"If parents do not amended their children from infinitesimal to moment, they will creation and singing of capitalism and go anti-socialists," nan source, speaking connected nan information of anonymity, reportedly said. 

The crackdown connected overseas media comes aft reports emerged successful December that North Korean authorities allegedly executed 2 minors – ages 16 and 17 – for watching and distributing South Korean movies. 

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A resident told Radio Free Asia they were told that "those who watch aliases administer South Korean movies and dramas, and those who disrupt societal bid by murdering different people, will not beryllium forgiven and will beryllium sentenced to nan maximum penalty-death."