SQUID GAME Smuggler Gets Death Sentence For Bringing Netflix Show To North Korea!

News has come out that a man who smuggled copies of the smash hit show, “Squid Game” into North Korea has been sentenced to death, after authorities caught high school students watching the show, according to Radio Free Asia (RFA).

Sources say that the series was smuggled in from China on a USB Flash drive and that the smuggler faces death by a firing squad.

“A student who bought a drive received a life sentence, while six others who watched the show have been sentenced to five years hard labor, and teachers and school administrators have been fired and face banishment to work in remote mines,” RFA reported.

Just last year in December of 2020, North Korea passed the “Elimination of Reactionary Thought and Culture” act, which prohibits the entry and dissemination of cultural material like films, plays, music and books in the country. The act is mainly aimed at preventing the spread of media from South Korea and the U.S. and those found distributing or consuming these are liable to be punished.

According to various reports, in April this year a man was publicly executed for selling drives and CDs containing South Korean material.

“Squid Game,” has been a source of anger in the dictatorship that rules North Korea. They have even gone so far as calling the show a “sad reality of a beastly South Korean society.”

The RFA report also states that there is a great public anxiety over the fate of the high school students and that more people could face investigation and ultimately punishment.

Netflix is NOT available in China but “Squid Game” has been pirated widely in the county, per reports.