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Mosby

(16,259 posts)
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 04:17 PM Aug 2020

Kim Jong Un orders pet dogs to be confiscated in North Korean capital

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has ordered pet dogs to be confiscated in the country’s capital, saying the pooches represent Western “decadence’’ — but their owners fear Fido is really headed for someone’s 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/

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Kim Jong Un orders pet dogs to be confiscated in North Korean capital (Original Post) Mosby Aug 2020 OP
I am sickened beyond sickened. hlthe2b Aug 2020 #1
Just soul deadening stuff. Zoonart Aug 2020 #2
Oh Wow! Sinistrous Aug 2020 #3
Someone should tell Trump to try this intrepidity Aug 2020 #4
"a source said" soryang Aug 2020 #5
This is where some confiscated North Korean pet dogs end up Mosby Aug 2020 #6

intrepidity

(7,275 posts)
4. Someone should tell Trump to try this
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 04:25 PM
Aug 2020

Tell him it's what a "strong leader" does.

Then watch those poll numbers...

soryang

(3,299 posts)
5. "a source said"
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 04:36 PM
Aug 2020

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

(16,259 posts)
6. This is where some confiscated North Korean pet dogs end up
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 12:03 PM
Aug 2020

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 Kim’s 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/

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