"To block the people's eyes and ears, they strengthened the crackdowns. It was a form of control aimed at eliminating even the smallest signs of dissatisfaction or complaint, recounted one escapee, cited in the report. 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. The clampdown has been aided by the expansion of mass surveillance systems through technological advances, which have subjected citizens to control in all parts of life over the past 10 years,"
"No other population is under such restrictions in today's world, concluded the agency's report, which is based on interviews with more than 300 witnesses and victims who had fled the country and reported the further erosion of freedoms. To block the people's eyes and ears, they strengthened the crackdowns. It was a form of control aimed at eliminating even the smallest signs of dissatisfaction or complaint, recounted one escapee, cited in the report."
Mass surveillance systems expanded through technological advances have subjected citizens to control in all parts of life over the past decade. Executions for ordinary and political crimes increased since COVID-era restrictions. New laws impose the death penalty for distributing foreign television series, including South Korean K-dramas. Interviews with over 300 witnesses and victims who fled the country report intensified repression, fear, and erosion of freedoms. Children from lower social levels are forced into hazardous labor, including so-called shock brigades in coal mining and construction, because families without bribe resources cannot avoid conscription.
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