RFA-Korean reports that North Korea last year executed the director of one of its state-run companies last year for having made phone calls abroad without permission, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Paris-based RSF said in its annual survey of press freedom worldwide that North Korea “is the world’s most isolated country and the security forces are responsible for keeping it that way at all costs. Pyongyang’s executions for the offense of communicating with people outside the country have shot up.
North Korea jams international broadcasts by Free North Korea Radio, Voice of America, Open Radio for North Korea, Radio Free Asia, the BBC, and Radio Free Chosun.
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