Posted on 05/07/2016 6:36:19 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
05.06.16 2:06 AM ET
No Weddings, Funerals in North Korea So Kim Jong Un Can ‘Party’
No work breaks, no travel, and no food (again). The Dear Leader launched an unprecedented crackdown on his beleaguered masses to ‘celebrate’ a rare Congress for his elite this weekend.
Kim Jong Un has imposed extraordinary social controls across North Korea—and especially in the capital of Pyongyang—in the run-up to the Workers’ Party 7th Congress, which starts Friday. The once-in-a-generation event—the last was held in 1980—is supposed to celebrate Kim’s rule, but in recent months observers have been seeing signs of a breakdown of order and a descent back into destitution.
Kim mobilized all North Koreans to prepare for the event. The Congress, for instance, caps a “70-day struggle,” a period when workers were forced to labor around the clock, often on projects conceived to commemorate the party gathering. Unfortunate citizens temporarily disappeared, especially from open-air markets, as security officials press-ganged them, according to Seoul’s Chosen Ilbo newspaper.
Nonetheless, people were willingly coming forward to lend a hand. Rodong Sinmun, the party’s authoritative newspaper, at the beginning of last month reported that a couple “volunteered” to work on their wedding day. These industrious newlyweds should count themselves lucky. Weddings since then have been banned, as have funerals.
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I was watching something the other day on TV about North Korea. the news report was allowed to visit and film a hair salon. they showed the sign on the wall of the only approved haircuts that women are allowed to pick from.
Well North Korea is the only country in the world where the Official Leader of the Country is a dead guy, Kim Il-Sung.
Well everything can have a “yet”.
China knows they can deal with them very quickly if they want to.
LOL, thanks.
When will some clever warlord push a button on this little mutt?
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