From reading the articles I would conclude the following:
RFA, a US-funded asian ‘news broadcaster’, very likely has created this piece of propaganda as an attempt to use the popularity of the Squid Games to disseminate mis-information about North Korea
and
North Korea did pass a law that specifies death as a possible penalty for distributing South Korean content
That NKnews site is also American. I thought that something like this would be easy to verify, so I have tried to find a bit more information, and according to this site:
While the text of the law was not made public outside of the North, anecdotal reports since indicate that this has prompted a widespread crackdown on foreign content and influence in the country.
RFA story is almost certainly just a load of BS, the other one links back to here (not sure whether this is a DPRK-owned website or not as I can’t read Korean)
From reading the articles I would conclude the following:
and
So… everyone sucks.
Oddly enough, I can’t find much info on that law, there isn’t even a Wikipedia article for it or anything
That NKnews site is also American. I thought that something like this would be easy to verify, so I have tried to find a bit more information, and according to this site:
https://www.38north.org/2021/11/north-korea-intensifies-war-against-foreign-influence/
So, perhaps it is not as simple.
Yeah NKNews links back to RFA in a lot of cases, and they often just blatantly make shit up on their own w/ “unspecified sources”