North Korean parents who let children watch Hollywood films sent to jail
North Korea will jail mums and dads for letting their kids watch Hollywood blockbusters.
Kim Jong Un is carrying out a vicious crackdown against foreign films and TV series, with parents being warned they will face stiff punishment if their kids watch overseas movies, even for a first offence.
Previously, parents found guilty of the "crime" could escape with a stern warning.
Sources inside the Hermit Kingdom say Pyongyang has rolled out "Inminban" - a compulsory neighbourhood watch meeting in which the regime's orders trickle down to communities.
Parents will be told the state is no longer offering mercy for those found in possession of smuggled movies, reports Radio Free Asia.
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While the parents will be sentenced to six months, the children will be hit with a five-year term (AFP via Getty Images)The Inminban will also warn parents about failing to raise their children "properly" in line with Kim's socialist ideals.
The parents of a son or a daughter found watching a Hollywood or South Korean movie will end up spending six months languishing in a forced labour camp.
But the children who watched it face an unthinkable five-year sentence.
It's not just film lovers that are being targetted, as Kim issues a wave of harsher measures relating to dancing, talking and singing.
Anyone found performing "like a South Korean" will be slapped with a six-month term, as will their parents.
Parents are being warned that they need to raise their kids in-line with North Korea's socialist values (AFP/Getty Images)North Korea's forced labour camps are notoriously grim places, where prisoners must perform gruelling and at times dangerous work with primitive tools in farms and mines.
Food is tightly rationed, leaving most prisoners on the brink of starvation. The unrelenting physical toll and small food rations cause a high prisoner mortality rate.
Speaking of the Inmiban meetings, a source inside the Hermit Kingdom told RFA: "The host of the meeting emphasises parental responsibility, saying that education for children begins at home.
“If parents do not educate their children from moment to moment, they will dance and sing of capitalism and become anti-socialists”.
While the consumers of foreign films break their backs in prison camps, those convicted of smuggling foreign material face execution.
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Two teens were executed last year for distributing banned material (KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Image)In October last year, two teens were shot dead by firing squad in the border city of Hyesan after the regime found them guilty of sharing South Korean films.
Another recent image shows a group of parents and kids being paraded in front of a massive crowd as their sentences are read out for breaching the law, which is called the "Rejection of Reactionary Thought and Culture Act".
Kim's crackdown comes from a fear that North Korea's younger population is becoming exposed to the values and norms of other countries.
The regime is particularly worried about influences from its southern neighbour, which is home to K-Pop and a popular film industry.
More young people have been seen picking up South Korean slang, hairstyles, and fashion trends native to the south.
It's believed that the media is smuggled in the form of CDs and thumb drives across the China-DPRK border.
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