"Kim’s Deadly TV Ban: North Koreans Executed for Watching -Dramas, UN Report Reveals"

North Korea’s iron curtain has just pulled tighter—this time around TV screens. A shocking new United Nations report says that Kim Jong Un’s regime has gone as far as executing citizens for daring to watch or share foreign dramas, with South Korea’s wildly popular K-dramas topping the blacklist.

The report, based on interviews with more than 300 defectors and witnesses, paints a chilling picture: life in North Korea is now a surveillance-fuelled nightmare where “eyes and ears” are policed to stamp out even the faintest flicker of discontent.

“People were killed simply for sharing a show,” one escapee recounted, their testimony echoing a decade of mounting fear and repression.

The UN’s James Heenan confirmed the scale of executions has spiked since the COVID era, with the state leaning heavily on new tech-driven mass surveillance systems that follow citizens from home to workplace to classroom. “Control in all parts of life” is now the reality, the report warned.

And it’s not just adults feeling the squeeze. Children—especially those from families too poor to bribe their way out—are being marched into dangerous forced labour brigades, digging coal or laying concrete for “the glory of the nation.” The UN says the practice may amount to modern-day slavery.

The findings come a decade after a previous landmark UN inquiry accused Pyongyang of running prison camps holding up to 120,000 people in conditions marked by torture, starvation, and executions. The new report shows the machinery of repression has not slowed—if anything, it has modernised.

UN rights chief Volker Turk put it bluntly: if Kim’s trajectory continues, North Koreans face “more suffering, brutal repression and fear.”

As for Pyongyang’s embassies in Geneva and London? Silent. No denials, no outrage—just the familiar wall of secrecy.

In short: watching a K-drama in North Korea could be the last show you ever see.