North Koreans Banned Hot Dogs: North Koreans have reportedly been banned from eating hot dogs. Dictator Kim Jong Un has declared that serving sausages was treason. He said that western cultures are infiltrating the country.
The Sun reports, Kim Jong Un’s statement has come when the popularity of Bude-jjige, a South Korean dish inspired by America, has increased rapidly in North Korea. Inspired by the bud-jazzy hot dog. People caught selling or cooking hot dogs are threatened with spending time in the country’s notorious labor camps.
When did this dish come to North Korea?
It is believed that this dish reached North Korea for some time in 2017, decades after its invention in South Korea. This dish is a spicy Korean-American hotpot meaning “army base stew”. This involves including hot dogs or Spam among the ingredients of the dish. This dish was invented during the Korean War in the 1950s, when locals used leftover meat from rations given to American soldiers to satisfy their hunger. Actually they used the leftover meat to make stews.
“The sale of bude-jajigae in the market has been stopped. Police and market management have said that anyone caught selling it will be stopped,” a vendor in the northern province of Ryanggang told The Sun. Will go.”
Even those who seek divorce are being punished
There were also reports in December that divorced citizens in North Korea faced one to six months in labor camps as punishment. According to RFA, a divorced woman who claimed to have endured three months of labor in South Pyongan province said women received harsher punishment than men. She said, “There are about 80 women and 40 men imprisoned in the county labor training camp. About 30 men and women were imprisoned because of divorce orders and the women had longer sentences.”
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