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Ten senior members of North Korea's ruling party have been executed after they were caught watching soap operas.
The officials were killed on the order of dictator Kim Jong-Un, taking the number of senior government and military members executed this year to 50, South Korea's intelligence agency have said.
The ten were ‘executed by firing squad for watching South Korean soap operas, bribery or womanising'.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un attends a women's football match in Pyongyang
Pirate copies of South Korean and Chinese television programmes are widely available and traded on the black market, The Telegraph reports.
Details on theexecutions were provided by the intelligence service in a report to the South Korean parliament on Tuesday, Yonhap News told the paper.
Kim Jong-Un's father, Kim Jong-Il and grandfather Kim Il-Sung, fiercely protected the population of North Korea from any foreign or modern influences.
However, Jon-Un has struggled to shield the North Koreans as mobile phones and the internet has blurred borders.
Cheered on: The women's football game saw the North Korean team meet a team from national team and the Wolmido, an island just south of the border to South Korea
Inspection: Jong-Un, pictured with his wife Ri Sol Ju, right, visit a newly-built restaurant for service personnel in Pyongyang this week
Tough leader: According to South Korean intelligence, Kim Jong-Un has had 50 senior Worker's Party and military officials executed in 2014 alone
No time for fun for you, only me: Ten officials have been executed for watching South Korean soap operas
Last week, South Korean media reported that six officials - including the minister of mail and telecommunications, the commanding officer of North Korea's air force and a key official in the North's sport programmes - have not been present at a series of important events in recent months.
An intelligence source told South Korea's renowned JoongAng Ilbo newspaper that 'six minister-level officials were executed'.
If true, it would be the third major purge since the dictator Kim Jong-un assumed power in 2011.
This comes a day after North Korea held talks with a UN human rights investigator for first the first time in ten years.
The women's football game took place just weeks after a key official for 'sport programmes' went missing
A view shows spectators at the remodelled May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, during the football
UN human rights chief Marzuki Darusman said he was surprised and gratified that North Korean officials had raised the possibility of allowing him to visit their country during their meeting.
But he said the prospect of such a trip remains deeply uncertain because leader Kim Jong Un was insisting that he drop moves in a UN resolution to prosecute the country at the International Criminal Court.over its human rights record.
A U.N. Commission of Inquiry report, published in February, detailed wide-ranging abuses, including the use of prison camps, torture, starvation and killings comparable to Nazi-era atrocities.
Source:Dailymail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2812475/North-Korean-officials-executed-watching-South-Korean-TV-soap-operas-Kim-Jong-s-latest-purge.html#ixzz3Hc8O19vW
The officials were killed on the order of dictator Kim Jong-Un, taking the number of senior government and military members executed this year to 50, South Korea's intelligence agency have said.
The ten were ‘executed by firing squad for watching South Korean soap operas, bribery or womanising'.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un attends a women's football match in Pyongyang
Pirate copies of South Korean and Chinese television programmes are widely available and traded on the black market, The Telegraph reports.
Details on theexecutions were provided by the intelligence service in a report to the South Korean parliament on Tuesday, Yonhap News told the paper.
Kim Jong-Un's father, Kim Jong-Il and grandfather Kim Il-Sung, fiercely protected the population of North Korea from any foreign or modern influences.
However, Jon-Un has struggled to shield the North Koreans as mobile phones and the internet has blurred borders.
Cheered on: The women's football game saw the North Korean team meet a team from national team and the Wolmido, an island just south of the border to South Korea
Inspection: Jong-Un, pictured with his wife Ri Sol Ju, right, visit a newly-built restaurant for service personnel in Pyongyang this week
Tough leader: According to South Korean intelligence, Kim Jong-Un has had 50 senior Worker's Party and military officials executed in 2014 alone
No time for fun for you, only me: Ten officials have been executed for watching South Korean soap operas
Last week, South Korean media reported that six officials - including the minister of mail and telecommunications, the commanding officer of North Korea's air force and a key official in the North's sport programmes - have not been present at a series of important events in recent months.
An intelligence source told South Korea's renowned JoongAng Ilbo newspaper that 'six minister-level officials were executed'.
If true, it would be the third major purge since the dictator Kim Jong-un assumed power in 2011.
This comes a day after North Korea held talks with a UN human rights investigator for first the first time in ten years.
The women's football game took place just weeks after a key official for 'sport programmes' went missing
A view shows spectators at the remodelled May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, during the football
UN human rights chief Marzuki Darusman said he was surprised and gratified that North Korean officials had raised the possibility of allowing him to visit their country during their meeting.
But he said the prospect of such a trip remains deeply uncertain because leader Kim Jong Un was insisting that he drop moves in a UN resolution to prosecute the country at the International Criminal Court.over its human rights record.
A U.N. Commission of Inquiry report, published in February, detailed wide-ranging abuses, including the use of prison camps, torture, starvation and killings comparable to Nazi-era atrocities.
Source:Dailymail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2812475/North-Korean-officials-executed-watching-South-Korean-TV-soap-operas-Kim-Jong-s-latest-purge.html#ixzz3Hc8O19vW
