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While K-Pop has become a worldwide sensation in recent years, Kim Jong-un says it’s a ‘vicious cancer’. For anyone unaware, K-Pop is a genre of pop music originating from South Korea. You’ll have likely heard of BTS, the historic Grammy-nominated boyband known globally for their hit English-language single Dynamite, among other tracks. The Supreme Leader isn’t …
South Korean music, movies and dramas are winning the hearts of young North Koreans. Their influence is seen as a threat to Mr. Kim’s grip on society.
Computers, text messages, music players and notebooks are now being searched for South Korean content and accents, according to North Korean government documents smuggled out by Asia Press.
Kim Jong Un declares culture war against South Korea's growing influence in North
Amid increasing cultural influence from South Korea, the 37-year-old North Korean leader is imposing harsher penalties on citizens caught listening to "perverse" K-pop music. The secretive anti-K-pop campaign came to light through internal documents smuggled out of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) by the Seoul-based news source Daily NK, The New York Times first reported Friday. These were then made public by South Korean legislators. The newly slimmed-down DPRK despot had dubbed the southern cultural imports a "vicious cancer" corrupting North Korean youths’ "attire, hair...