🇰🇵 A man smuggled Squid Game into North Korea on a USB drive, sold a copy to a high school student, and was tied to a post and shot to death.
The student got life in prison, his friends got 5 years of hard labor.
The Kim regime has outlawed foreign media, mandated… pic.twitter.com/BjGtZQJOhS
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 27, 2026
A man smuggled Squid Game into North Korea on a USB drive, sold a copy to a high school student, and was tied to a post and shot to death.
The student got life in prison, his friends got 5 years of hard labor.
The Kim regime has outlawed foreign media, mandated state-approved hairstyles, criminalized sharing a birthday with Kim Il-sung, and operates prison camps where 3 generations of a family can be punished for 1 person’s crime.
The madness isn’t accidental… it’s strategic.
Every escalation happened because the outside world got a little too close, and the regime knows the moment North Koreans see how South Koreans live, the whole thing starts to unravel.
40-50 nuclear warheads, 25 million people living under total information blackout, and the only thing keeping it together is fear, China’s willingness to prop it up, and the fact nobody outside has wanted to pay the cost of ending it.
You can execute the smugglers, but you cannot kill the curiosity.
Eventually, that wall is going to crack.

