Kim Kong-un has issued a strange ban on a food loved by Americans. (Image: Getty)
North Korean Supreme Leader has issued a bizarre ban on one food loved by Americans, declaring it an act of treason to serve it.
As part of his rampant crackdown on Western culture, Kim has now prevented his people from eating hotdogs – also a popular food in .
Reports have claimed that people caught cooking or selling hotdogs could be arrested and sentenced to hard labour in the hermit country’s infamous prison camps.
Hotdogs Korean-American fusion dish budae-jjigae, which translates to “army based stew”. It’s made from a broth, pepper paste, kimchi, Spam, beans, and sausages.
The dish made its way from the South to the North in approximately 2017 – over 50 years after it was created using meat discarded by US soldiers.
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The North Korean leader banned hotdogs. (Image: Getty)
Radio Free Asia (RFA) also steamed rice cakes known as tteokbokki – popular street food in South Korea.
There have also been claims of people being sent to labour camps for one to six months for the “crime” of getting divorced, as it’s considered anti-socialist. Instead, the government must approve formal requests for people to separate.
A divorced woman said she was forced to do three months of labour and that women are punished more harshly than men, RFA reports.
Last year, that North Korea is cracking down on sunglasses, jeans, wedding dresses, slang, music, and films from South Korea.
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South Korea’s Unification Ministry collected testimonies from hundreds of defectors and exposed the execution of a 22-year-old after they listened to music and watched films from the South.
New agency Yonhap also reported that officials are searching people’s homes for signs of , including white wedding dresses and messages on people’s phones that contain slang.
Despite Kim being known to wear dark sunglasses, the accessory has also been deemed counter-revolutionary, according to the ministry’s report. Jeans have also been labelled as counter-revolutionary.
called the report of the execution “slander and fabrication” but has not responded to the ministry’s document.