The punishment was particularly severe because the boys had not only listened to music from the “puppet state” – North Korea’s derogatory term for South Korea – but had also shared it with others. Until recently, North Koreans often consumed South Korean media on cell phones. However, i...
North Korea Teens Get 12 Years' Hard Labour for Watching K-Pop - Video More By Minwoo Park and Jimin Jung SEOUL (Reuters) - Video footage released by an organisation that works with North Korean defectors shows North Korean authorities publicly sentencing two teenagers to 12 y...
North Korea has floated more than 2,000 balloons to drop waste paper, scraps of cloth, cigarette butts, waste batteries and even manure on South Korea Author of the article: The Associated Press Hyung-jin Kim Published Jul 21, 2024 3 minute read Join the conversation ...
K-pop group Momoland is a hit in South KoreaCBS News South Korean pop culture is a big export in Asia, and is even making inroads in the West. There's also "K-drama," which are blockbuster South Korean soap operas. They're officially prohibited in North Korea, as is the internet. ...
Image:Members of Red Velvet wave to the media as they leave South Korea South Korean K-pop - like most foreign influences - is usually supressed by the North, but makes its way in on smuggled USB sticks from China. A joint taekwondo demonstration, also featuring athletes from the North, ...
The balloons carry anti-North Korean government propaganda, food, medicine, money, USB sticks with K-pop videos and music, news of the outside world, and religious materials. Related Story North Korea's Satellite Is "Tumbling" in Orbit
Park, however, is not changing the basic theme of his balloon attacks, which he has been waging for more than 10 years. “All I can do is send the truth about how terrible life is in North Korea to awaken North Koreans.” Along with leaflets exposing the evils of the Kim dynast...
South Korean K-Pop Singers to Perform in North Koreacstutz
With a U.S. soldier crossing the border into North Korea at the border town of Panmunjom and in custody this week, talk turns to the nation itself — a country that …
South Korean activists sent balloons carrying K-pop and K-dramas on USB sticks to their northern neighbor on Thursday, days after North Koreanballoons of trash and “filth”floated in the opposite direction. The activist group Fighters for a Free North Korea (FFNK) released the giantballoons in...