Kim Jong Un Orders Pet Dogs Confiscated

[Pearce]

What does one even do with the weight of news like this?

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

The dictator issued the directive in July to round up the pets, claiming they were part of 'a ‘tainted’ trend by bourgeois ideology'

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Published August 17, 2020

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 bourgeois 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.’’

But while the oppressive regime says the move is to clamp down on capitalist extravagance in Pyongyang, the dog owners are fearful that given North Korea’s food shortage — and propensity for eating dog meat — the directive has only come about to feed the masses.

The dog owners are “cursing Kim Jong Un behind his back,” but otherwise, their hands are tied, the source lamented.

This story originally appeared in the New York Post. For more from the Post, click here.

 

[Beau]

Another South Korean newspaper publishes something negative about Kim from a "source?" Last time we did this, Kim was dead, so I will take this with a grain of salt. Just sounds more like Western propaganda than anything.