PYONGYANG (Korea Herald/ANN): North Korea has strengthened its law to control foreign cultural influences by increasing the severity of criminal punishments against the spread of “anti-socialist culture”, going so far as to impose the death penalty, the Ministry of Justice said on May 30.
According to the ministry, which recently analysed North Korea’s revised Criminal Act, North Korea expanded the scope of the death penalty to special criminal laws regarding drug crimes, reactionary ideology and culture, including from South Korea, dubbed Hallyu, or the Korean Wave.
