US investing millions to expose North Korean regime to its citizens via 'internet freedom'

In its effort to "improve reputation" of Americans and South Koreans, and "expose" North Korean regime, United States is investing an estimated $50 million (€46 million) over next five years under its annual defense spending package. Biden signed  Otto Warmbier Countering North Korea Censorship and Surveillance Act in FY2023 NDAA, marking an important step to reaffirm United States' commitment to combat North Korea’s human rights violations against its own people by exposing citizens it detained arbitrarily. law also plans to counter North Korean surveillance, censorship, and repression.

“I am gl to see this legislation pass as part of NDAA to honor Otto’s memory and reaffirm our pursuit of accountability and justice for all of those who have suffered under Kim Jung Un’s violent reign," Senator Coons, co-chair of Senate Human Rights Caucus h noted in a statement released on his official site. 

Law passed afer name of US student

law was passed by Washington after name of US student who was arrested in Pyongyang in 2016 on a charge of subversion. American student was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing a poster and later died in captivity. “ inhumane treatment of Otto Warmbier by North Korean authorities that ended in his death was a tragic reminder of Kim Jong Un’s brutal regime,” said Senator Brown at time.  22-year-old Warmbier was released in June 2017 in a vegetative state and died in a hospital in Ohio six days later. North Korean law would hold North Korea's brutal regime "responsible" for death of American unjust death, and a myri of or human rights abuses. 

To implement act, funds will be approved by US Agency for Global Media in order to facilitate internet freedom and rio programming, according to Congressional Budget Office. It would also authorize Biden ministration to impose sanctions on foreign persons responsible for North Korea’s censorship and surveillance activities. " bill also authorizes US Agency for Global Media to provide increased brocasting and grants for various purposes, including development of internet freedom tools to facilitate information sharing related to North Korea and restoration of agency's brocasting capacity to North Korea," US Congress noted.