North Koreans Continue to Be Sent to Labor Camps as Part of Crackdown on South Korean Entertainment

While Kim Jong-un is busy hanging out with a K-Pop group his security apparatus in North Korea is busy sending people to labor camps for listening to K-Pop or watching Korean dramas:

Youngsters are being sent to labor camps in North Korea after being caught secretly watching South Korean entertainment ― including movies and soap operas ― according to sources familiar with Pyongyang.

The sources said the authorities were cracking down on clandestine viewing of South Korean media amid fears that it will harm the Kim Jong-un regime’s “ideological purity.”

The young people still risk being sent to re-education labor camps for using illegal memory cards for entertainment.

“Those who are caught are sent to youth labor-reform centers and kept there for about a year for re-education,” a source said.

In his New Year’s address, Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un underscored that “a vigorous struggle should be waged to tighten moral discipline throughout society, establish a socialist way of life and eliminate all kinds of non-socialist practices, so as to ensure that all the people, possessed of ennobling mental and moral traits, lead a revolutionary and cultured life.”  [Korea Times]

You can read more at the link, but does anyone think that President Moon or anyone else in South Korea will speak out against this or just pretend it isn’t happening?