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Kim Jong-un issues bizarre ban as keeping pet dogs 'not compatible' with socialist model


Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), which documents the atrocities of the Kim regime, said it was a “ludicrous” rule.

He said: “What should I do with the dog I love so much? I can’t just kill it, and I can’t just abandon it.

“The Kim regime criminalises normal behaviour, including visiting a relative in a neighbouring village without a travel permit, crossing the border without regime approval, or possessing a religious book.”

“The ongoing crackdown on pet dog ownership as non-socialist behaviour – this attempt to break the multi-millennial human-canine bond by ideological decree – is the epitome of ludicrous interdiction.”

The practice of keeping dogs as pets was a late arrival in North Korea, where residents mostly kept dogs to guard their homes before the 2000s.

The source said: “There have always been families who had cats to catch mice, but there weren’t many families with dogs.

“But that number has gradually increased, and recently there’s been a noticeable rise in foreign breeds of dogs such as Pomeranians and Shih Tzus, which used to be a rare sight in North Korea.”

Dog meat has historically been used across the whole of the Korean Peninsula but it has become increasingly controversial in the South.

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