Hot Dogs Mean Hard Labor After Kim's Latest Decree
For many people, a hot dog is a fast-food snack. For Kim Jong-un it is a treasonous symbol of decadent western culture which, if eaten from now on in North Korea, is punishable by hard labor.
The all-powerful leader of the hermit state, who celebrated his 41st birthday yesterday, has decreed that anyone caught selling hot dogs on Pyongyang's streets or making them at home will face imprisonment.
Kim's disdain for hot dogs is not culinary, but ideological. The ban represents a broader campaign to root out western...
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