North Korea, which performs more people to watch foreign films and television, finds the UN

The North Korean government is increasingly being the death penalty, including for people who have been watching and exchanged foreign films and television drama, the UN main report.

The dictatorship, which remains largely cut off from the world, also exposes to its people more forced labor, while limiting their freedom, is added in the report.

The UN Human Rights Office has found that in the last decade the North Korean state has strengthened control over “all aspects of citizens’ lives”.

“No other population is under such restrictions in the modern world,” he concluded, adding that the observation became “more common”, which partially helped achieve technology.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said that if the situation continues, the Northern Koreans “would be subjected to more suffering, severe repression and fear that they have survived for so long.”

The report, based on more than 300 interviews with people who fled North Korea over the last 10 years, has shown that the death penalty is used more often.

Since 2015, at least six new laws have been adopted to give a fine. One of the crimes that may now be executed is the observation and exchange of foreign media content, such as movies and television drama when Kim Jong Un works on a successful restriction on people’s access to information.

The escape told UN researchers that there have been more shootings for foreign content. They described how these shootings were being shot in public to instill people’s fear and prevent them from breaking the law.

Kan Guri, who escaped in 2023, told the BBC that three of her friends were shot after being caught by South Korea’s content. She was in trial over one 23-year-old friend who was convicted of execution.

“He was tried with drug addicts. Now these crimes are treated equally,” she said, adding that since 2020 people have become more afraid.

Such an experience goes against the North Korean people in the last decades.

When the current leader Kim Jong Un came to power in 2011, the escapes that were interviewed said they hope their lives would improve, because whom promised that they would no longer need to “tighten the belts” – that is, they will be enough to eat. He promised to develop the economy, while defending the country through further development of its nuclear weapons.

But the report shows that since he has avoided diplomacy with the West and the US in 2019, instead of focusing on the weapons program, life situations and human rights “degraded”.

Almost everyone was interviewed, they said that they were not enough, and three meals a day was “luxury”. During the Covid pandemic, many escapes stated that there was a serious lack of food and people across the country died of hunger.

At the same time, the government was angry in the informal markets where they will trade families, which complicated them to make a living. It also made it almost impossible to escape from the country, dragging control along the border with China and ordering the troops to withdraw those trying to cross.

“In the early days of Kim Jong in we hoped, but this hope did not last long,” said one young woman who fled in 2018 at the age of 17.

“The government gradually prevented people from making a living on their own, and the act of life itself has become a daily suffering,” he testified for the researchers.

The UN report states that “over the last 10 years the government has carried out almost complete control of people without letting them make their own decisions” – whether it is economic, social or political. The report added that improving observation technology helped make it possible.

One escape told researchers that these government repressions were assigned “to block people’s eyes and ears.”

“This is a form of control aimed at eliminating even the slightest signs of discontent or complaint,” they said, saying anonymously.

The report also found that the government uses more forced labor than ten years ago. People from poor families recruit “shock crews” to perform physically demanding tasks such as construction projects.

Workers hope this will improve their social status, but work is dangerous and death is common. However, not to improve the safety of the workers, the government glorifies death by calling them the victim of Kim Jongunun. In recent years, it has even gained thousands of children -Syrat and street children, the report reports.

This latest study stems from the innovative report on the UN Commission Investigation in 2014, which first discovered that the North Korea government committed crimes against humanity. Some of the most severe human rights violations, which took place in the notorious political prison camps, where people could be closed for life and “disappeared”.

In this 2025 report, it turns out that at least four of these camps are still working, and detainees in ordinary prisons are still being tortured and cruel.

Many escapes stated that they witnessed prisoners who die from poor treatment, overstretching and malnutrition, although the UN has heard “some limited improvements” at objects, including a “slight decrease in violence”.

The UN calls for the situation to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

However, if this happens, it should be sent to the UN Security Council. Since 2019, two permanent members, China and Russia, have repeatedly blocked attempts to impose new sanctions in North Korea.

Last week, Kim Jong Un joined the Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Beijing military parade, signaling the silent North Korean nuclear weapons program and treating his citizens.

As well as calling on the international community to act, the UN asks the North Korea government to abolish its political prison camps, stop using the death penalty and teach its human rights citizens.

“Our reporting shows a clear and strong desire for change, especially among young people (North Korea),” said the UN Chief of Human Rights, Mr. Turk.