dog ownership among the elite class as food supplies run short in the tinpot nation. In a move said to be against capitalist “decadence”, the Pyongyang chiefs aimed to curb dog ownership to appease angry North Koreans who are furious at the current situation.
A source inside the country said leader Kim Jong-un issued a ban on pet ownership last month as it had a “tainted” capitalist ideology.
They told right-wing South Korea newspaper The Chosun Ilbo: “Authorities have identified households with pet dogs and are forcing them to give up or forcefully confiscating them and putting them down.”Some of the dogs would be sent to state-run zoos, while restaurants would take others.According to the publication, pet owners in the country are.
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