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North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has ordered pet dogs to be confiscated in the countrys capital, saying the pooches represent Western decadence but their owners fear Fido is really headed for someones dinner table.
Kim issued the directive in July to round up the pets, claiming they were part of a tainted trend by bourgeouis ideology, a source told the English edition of Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper.
Ordinary people raise pigs and livestock on their porches, but high-ranking officials and the wealthy own pet dogs, which stoked some resentment among the lower classes, the source said.
Authorities have identified households with pet dogs and are forcing them to give them up or forcefully confiscating them and putting them down.
https://nypost.com/2020/08/17/kim-jong-un-orders-pet-dogs-to-be-confiscated-in-pyongyang/amp/
hlthe2b
(102,339 posts)Zoonart
(11,876 posts)Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)Another obscenity mf45 can inflict on the population.
intrepidity
(7,335 posts)Tell him it's what a "strong leader" does.
Then watch those poll numbers...
soryang
(3,299 posts)an unreliable source, Chosun Ilbo, says a "source said."
Can't they do better than this? I guess they don't want people talking bad about the epidemic their crank demagogue minister is spreading in South Korea and the corrupt Prosecutor General who lets this crap happen.
Mosby
(16,339 posts)North Koreans upset about dictator Kim Jong Un ordering pet dogs to be confiscated in the capital can still see some of the pooches in zoos.
The country has put a collection of the canines on display at state-run zoos, amid Kims edicts over the years to confiscate pampered pups in Pyongyang because they represent Western decadence, a report said.
The kooky leader renewed the call to round up the household pets again in July, a source told the South Korean newspaper Chosen Ilbo.
Authorities have identified households with pet dogs and are forcing them to give them up or forcefully confiscating them and putting them down, the source said.
The regime says that keeping dogs as pets is part of a bourgeois ideology, the source said.
https://nypost.com/2020/08/18/this-is-where-some-confiscated-north-korean-pet-dogs-end-up/amp/