Mick Hartley

More on the battle against South Korean culture, from the Daily NK:

North Korea’s state security agency recently instructed bureaus around the country to treat the consumption of South Korean television or publications as an act of hostility against the state and to harshly punish violators.

Multiple sources in North Korea told Daily NK that orders given by the Ministry of State Security last Thursday defined the acts of tuning the television to a South Korean broadcast and acquiring or distributing propaganda publications as acts of hostility against the state, acts that aid the enemy, and reactionary acts. The ministry also ordered that such behavior be punished more sternly than before.

“In the orders, the ministry declared that the current situation is more sensitive than before. It also stressed that the clandestine viewing of television programs or reading of propaganda publications from the enemy state can no longer be treated as ordinary crimes and that reoffenders from this time forward are political criminals who must be cordoned off from society,” said a source in North Hwanghae Province, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons. 

“The orders are to give out much harsher punishments to people watching television or reading publications from the enemy state, even if they’re first-time offenders,” said another source in Kaesong, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. 

It's that same purity obsession that requires mixed race (normally Chinese-North Korean) babies to be aborted. Cultural purity, racial purity…not so much radical socialism as extreme nationalist fascism.