The Daily NK, a North Korean media outlet, reported that a North Korean military officer was shot publicly for watching South Korean dramas and entertainment programs.
The Daily NK reported that on the 22nd, at the shooting range of the 3rd Corps training ground of the North Korean Army, Capt. Kim Mo, the rear commander of the 3rd Corps, was publicly shot at the shooting range of the 3rd Corps training ground in the midst of corps command officers and key soldiers gathered.
In addition, it was reported that Dae-Jwa Kim's wife and two sons were taken to a political prison camp, and all of their homes and property were confiscated.
The base of the North Korean military is equivalent to the rank of colonel in South Korea.
Daily NK reported that during the censorship led by the military united command earlier this month, a memory containing South Korean dramas and entertainment programs was found in the house of Kim Dae-Jwa, and the censorship team immediately arrested Kim.
At the end of last year, North Korea enacted the Reactionary Ideology and Culture Exclusion Act, which aims to block the inflow of external culture, and the media reported that Dae-Jwa Kim was the first case of punishment within the People's Army under this law.
In a report from the National Assembly Intelligence Committee on the 16th, the National Intelligence Service announced that North Korea increased the punishment through the'Reaction Ideology and Culture Exclusion Act' to the maximum death penalty for inflow and distribution of South Korean videos, and up to 15 years of correctional punishment when viewing.
The Daily NK said it was not confirmed whether or not Daeja Kim distributed the South Korean video, but said it could have been stigmatized as an anti-party revolutionary molecule and decided to death.