Kim Jong Un threatens North Koreans with punishment if they waste food amid famine

Kim Jong Un has threatened North Koreans with punishment if they waste food as the country struggles to feed its population following this year’s floods. ‘Strong legal punishment’ awaits those who fail to protect the socialist economy and the welfare of their comrades by wasting food, a new directive from the Central Committee of the … Read more

North Koreans ordered to hand over pet dogs to be killed for meat as country hit by food shortages 

North Koreans are ordered to hand over ‘decadent and bourgeois’ pet dogs so they can be killed and ‘provided to restaurants for meat’ as the country is rocked by food shortages Dictator Kim Jong-un announced in July that owning a pet is now against the law Authorities are identifying homes with dogs in Pyongyang and … Read more

North Koreans scavenge for scrap metal in ruins of building

North Koreans desperate to meet scrap metal quotas are plundering in the wreckage of the liaison office with the South that was blown up on Kim Jong-un’s orders.  Residents of Kaesong are risking arrest by scavenging in the ruins of the Inter-Korean Liaison Office which was set up in a spirit of unity in 2018 … Read more

3 months’ hard labour for not North Koreans not wearing masks

North Koreans will be given three months’ hard labour for not wearing Covid-19 facemasks under tough new rules Students have been recruited to carry out ‘face mask patrols’ amid crackdown  Those not wearing a face mask will be forced to carry out 3 months of labour  North Korea has not officially recorded any cases of … Read more