North Korean teens sentenced to hard labour for watching South Korean films

Rare footage obtained by a South Korean thinktank purports to show two 16-year-old high school students in North Korea sentenced to 12 years of hard labour for watching and distributing South Korean films and dramas. In the video, which has not been independently verified by the Guardian, the students can be seen standing in a show trial in front of hundreds of their peers. The footage then shows text explaining North Korea’s laws on importing or distributing South Korean media before moving on to a segment criticising North Korean women for adopting ’foreign clothing’