Failure to display sufficient reverence for the country's leadership is considered a grave offence, punishable by fines, imprisonment, or even execution.
As such, all households are required to hang portraits of Kim incumbent, as well as former leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung and ensure they are spotless.
My expectations are always low, but lol come on, this is Yeonmi Park shit. Three portraits hung in every home with no dust! Otherwise, summary execution!
Anyway, most of this is the classic cycling of old stories to make them look better-substantiated when every reference to X story comes from a given RFA report from an "anonymous informant".
The things that accuse Korea of is not that outlandish, especially if you are living in a place with a monarch. We don't need to go that many years back before it was commonplace for public spaces like hotels or community halls to hang portraits of the royals. People had that shit in their homes as well, like my great grandfather who had an honest to God equestrian statue of the king sitting on his desk.
Of course western media and the grifters feeding them tall tales about Korea are going to exaggerate things. I'm just remarking that the core of the story, that there's lots of portraits of the Kims in Korea, is not something completely alien to western societies.