North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has called for pets to be confiscated in the country’s capital, saying the pooches represent Western “decadence” – but its owners fear Fido is actually on his way to someone’s dining table.
Kim gave the directive in July to round up the pets, claiming they were part of “a ‘contaminated’ trend by bourgeois ideology, ” a source told the English edition of Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper.
“Ordinary people feed pigs and cattle on their porches, but senior officials and the wealthy own pet dogs, who put some resentment among the lower classes,” the source said.
“Authorities have identified households with pet dogs and forced them to give them up or forcibly confiscate and put them down.”
But while the repressive regime says the move is to bolster capitalist extravagance in Pyongyang, dog owners fear that given North Korea’s food shortages – and propensity to eat dog meat – the directive has only come to feed the masses. .
The dog owners “cursed Kim Jong Un behind his back”, but otherwise, their hands are tied, the source complained.
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