James Heenan, head of the UN Human Rights Office for North Korea, told a Geneva briefing that the number of executions for both normal and political crimes had increased since COVID-era restrictions.

An unspecified number of people had already been executed under new laws imposing the death penalty for distributing foreign TV series, including the popular K-Dramas from South Korea, he added.

kim-cool If we find you watching Alien: Earth, we will take you out.

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    Cloning? That’s a new one. I thought it was Juche Necromancy - they kill people and then resurrect them the next day. (Wonder if they can bring Lenin back after all these years. We still need him.)