North Korean dictator Kim Kong-un has ordered citizens to hand over their pet dogs — so they can be killed for food.
The hermit state says pet dogs are now considered a “decadent” luxury and “a ‘tainted’ trend by bourgeois ideology,” and must be surrendered, according to a report by South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo media outlet.
The outlet says the move is likely designed to quell public anger over the country’s economic tailspin. A source told the outlet that Kim made the order in July.
“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.
Once the pets are rounded up, it’s reported, some go to zoos and some are sold into the restaurant trade, where dogs are regularly consumed. Pyongyang, the Daily Mail reports, has a number of specialized dog eateries.
Chosun Ilbo reports that although pet ownership was long frowned upon in North Korea, the state had seemed to relent since the late 1990s, when the rich of Pyongyang started owning pets as symbols of superiority.
According to the source: “Ordinary people raise pigs and livestock on their porches, but high-ranking officials and the wealthy own pet dogs, which stoked some resentment.”
Crop damage
According to the Daily Mail, a recent report by the UN said up to 60 percent of North Koreans face “widespread food shortages.” In recent weeks, heavy rain and flooding have sparked concern about crop damage and food supplies in the isolated country.
North Korea’s national Red Cross Society is the only organization with access to all nine provinces, and more than 43,000 volunteers have been working alongside health teams on COVID-19 prevention efforts as well as helping flood-related work, said Antony Balmain of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
“Hundreds of homes have been damaged and large areas of rice fields have been submerged due to heavy rain and some flash flooding,” Balmain said, according to Reuters.
North Korea’s Red Cross has deployed 43,000 volunteers to help communities prevent outbreaks of the coronavirus and provide flood assistance.
Kim declared an emergency last month and imposed a lockdown on Kaesong, near the inter-Korean border, after a man who defected to the South in 2017 returned to the city showing coronavirus symptoms.
— with files from Reuters
“Kim declared an emergency last month and imposed a lockdown on Kaesong, near the inter-Korean border, after a man who defected to the South in 2017 returned to the city showing coronavirus symptoms.“
That’s phishy. Who in the hell or what person in their right mind would escape North Korea and defect to the South, only to come back North again?
Unless they wanted to infect the population….
I’m having trouble swallowing this too
Well, I thought so, too, but I checked and several news sources were posting it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9CKim+Jong-un+orders+North+Koreans+to+hand+over+pet+dogs+%E2%80%94+so+they+can+be+used+as+meat%E2%80%9D+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b
Anyway, maybe more will surface in the next few days. In either case, come after my dog, you’re dead.
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Used as meat for who? Certainly not Kim Jong Un! He eats expensive organic I’m sure. And I am sure those “rich’ North Koreans will not have to give up their “expensive” dogs….that’s for the “little people” I am sure (and all they’d have to do is rename pigs “dogs” just like they have renamed mostly white Hispanics “people of color” in this country so that they don’t have to “check their privilege”…..)
Back in the 80’s, I got a mailer exposing the “Picnic of Death” that was happening in both the Koreas. It showed a happy family playing with their dog to a picture of a picnic area with a tree and a dog hanging to be butchered. Send $10.00 now!!
I thought my wife was going to have a cow!
I said, “They eat dog there, and I’ve heard that blackdog is a delicacy. We could do the same thing by mailing flyers to India showing the grotesque consumption of their ‘sacred cow'”.
She saw the cultural manipulation and relented on donating. Whew!
This article is just like that old pre-internet flyer. Horsefeathers!
Ever seen pit bull meat dipped in soy sauce? Really tightens up your appetite.
Or how about pit bull balls in gravy and rice?