Pyongyang ‘sentences’ 4 S. Korean journalists to death

  01 September 2017    Read: 1736
Pyongyang ‘sentences’ 4 S. Korean journalists to death
Pyongyang has sentenced four South Korean journalists to death for book reviews that insulted the North, state media said Thursday.
The Chosun Ilbo and the Dong-A Ilbo, both of them conservative newspapers, reviewed the new Korean edition of “North Korea Confidential,” a book by two Seoul-based British journalists first published in 2015.

The work details the growing role of the market in daily lives in the North, where South Korean television dramas are circulated on the black market, and fashion items and hairstyles from the South are copied.

By reviewing the book, newspapers “committed a hideous crime of seriously insulting the dignity of the DPRK” as part of a “sordid smear campaign,” the North’s Central Court said. One journalist from each newspaper, and the presidents of both publications were sentenced to capital punishment, it said.

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