The Russian embassy in Pyongyang has denied a news report from Seoul that North Koreans are being forced to give up their pet dogs to be cooked in restaurants. South Korea’s largest circulation newspaper Chosun reported this month that leader Kim Jong-un had banned pet ownership, denouncing it as “a tainted trend” of “bourgeois ideology”. Pet dogs, a preserve of Pyongyang’s wealthy elites, were seen by North Korean authorities as a symbol of capitalist “decadence”, said the newspaper. …
from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3098239/north-koreans-eating-pet-dogs-story-questionable
Friday, August 21, 2020
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