Kim Jong Un: K-pop is a ‘vicious cancer’ that merits work camp, execution

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, hairstyles, speeches, behaviors" à la the dancing in the ’80s movie "Footloose" — but with a much darker bent.