Regression to the situation human rights V North Korea so serious that simply watching a foreign television series can be punishable death sentencewarned this Wednesday before High Commissioner of the Security Council UN Human Rights, Volker Türk.

Turk drew gloomy forecast about what life in the Asian country entails, in periodic sessions to explore the reality in one of the most secret territories in the world, ruled by a communist dynasty since 1948.

“Environment stuffy and claustrophobicwhere life is a daily struggle, devoid of hope,” Türk concluded, describing the main factors determining these restrictions: lack of free movement, repression freedom of expression, socio-economic conditions”unbearably hard“, reality forced labor And arbitrary arrestsalong with the lack of due process.

Punishment for the use or distribution of so-calledreactionary culturedeserves a separate article of law, which, in the worst case, provides for the death penalty for secretly consume foreign media or television seriesand another law protects parents from punishment for their children’s actions in this regard.

North Koreans also believe that this “almost impossible“to leave the country without special permission from the government, which exacerbates the phenomenon of Korean families divided between the two countries in the north and south of the peninsula.

He physical access to food has become another problem that has worsened since the government closed the street markets known as “Changmadang‘ – the growing centralization of food production, which led to half the population suffers from food insecurity in recent years”.