North Korea 'cracks down' on 'vicious' pop music and calls artists 'slaves'
dailystar.co.ukNorth Korea has called musicians “slaves” that are “robbed of their body, mind and soul” in a bizarre attack on pop music. A piece published on the hermit kingdom’s Arirang Meari website made the unfounded claims over the weekend.It accused record labels of “exploitation” of successful bands without providing any evidence.Part of the piece states that K-pop artists are “bound to unbelievably unfair contracts from an early age, detained at their training and treated as slaves after being robbed of their body, mind and soul by the heads of vicious and corrupt art-related conglomerates."The article may have been published in an attempt to “crack down on foreign media” and K-pop, CNN reports.The genre originated in South Korea in the 1990s and.
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