North Korea executes 30 teens for watching K-Dramas: Reports

The North Korean regime, under the supreme leader Kim Jong Un, reportedly executed 30 teenagers  for watching South Korean shows, popularly known as K-Dramas.

As reported by a finance news website, the execution may have come under North Korea’s ‘Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Act’ which bans people from disseminating media that originates in South Korea, USA, and Japan.

North and South Koreas have been on the military standoff since the three-year war from 1950-53. 

As recently as on July 14, South Korea warned that North Korea will face the end of its regime if it attempts to use nuclear weapons. 

“We sternly warn that there is no scenario in which North Korea’s regime will survive after using nuclear weapons,” Seoul’s defence ministry said in a statement.

It was released in response to a statement by the North Korean defence ministry from the previous day. After South Korea and the United States adopted “Guidelines for Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Operations on the Korean Peninsula” in Washington on July 11, North Korea condemned it as a “reckless provocative act”.

North Korea also threatened that Seoul and Washington would pay ‘an unimaginably harsh price’.

On July 2, the Missile Administration of North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), successfully test-fired a new-type of tactical ballistic missile.

The new-type tactical ballistic missile can carry a “4.5 ton-class super-large warhead”, according to a report by KCNA.

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