By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-07 09:27:41 | Updated at 2025-01-08 10:24:08
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Kim Jong Un cracks down on sale of hot dogs in North Korea — with a penalty of time in labor camp (an act of treason)
NY Post ^ | 1/06/25 | Heath Parkes-Hupton
Posted on 01/07/2025 1:15:49 AM PST by Libloather
North Koreans have reportedly been banned from eating hot dogs as part of a crackdown on Western culture infiltrating the hermit kingdom.
Dictator Kim Jong Un has declared that serving the sausage was an act of treason, The Sun reports, amid the rising popularity of a South Korean dish inspired by the US.
People caught selling or cooking hot dogs face the prospect of time in the country’s infamous labor camps, while Pyongyang has also decreed that divorcees could also be jailed.
As part of the regime’s efforts to quash capitalist culture among citizens, it has forbidden the sale of budae-jjigae – a dish imported from pro-Western neighbor South Korea.
**SNIP**
Reports also emerged in December of citizens claiming divorcees in North Korea faced one to six months in labor camps for their “crimes.”
Divorce is frowned upon in the communist nation as it is considered an anti-socialist act, with the government required to sign off on any legal separations.
A divorced woman who claimed to have served three months of labor in South Pyongan province told RFA that women received harsher sentences than men.
“There are about 80 women, and 40 men imprisoned in the county labor training camp,” she said.
“About 30 men and women were imprisoned due to divorce decrees, and the women’s sentences were longer.”
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: camp; hotdogs; korea; labor
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Lock up the ex? Can it be done yesterday?
1 posted on 01/07/2025 1:15:49 AM PST by Libloather
To: Libloather
Hot dogs are to sausages what Soros is to a patriot.
2 posted on 01/07/2025 1:24:08 AM PST by AndyJackson
To: Libloather
I’ve read about these North Korean “labor camps”. They are torture camps, and no where you want to be.
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