At least 100 Pyongyang citizens have been internally exiled Since Early March to remote mountainous areas after searches revealed they had viewed or were in possession of South Korean video content or other recorded materials, a Pyongyang-based source told Daily NK.
“People brought in to the police station for either viewing illegal material or having it in their possession are only briefly investigated before being immediately exiled,” the source reported.
Despite reports that a number of high-ranking cadres were executed by firing squad last year for viewing South Korean videos and “obscene” recordings, the source conveyed that public executions do not appear to have been ordered this time around.
Nevertheless, the source confirmed that the forcible exile of over 100 people in such a short period time for this type of crime is an unprecedented move, and one that shows just how sensitive the North Korean regime is to material produced abroad.