North Koreans are facing the gulag for using slang words like 'bye-bye' and 'ty' after Kim Jong-un unleashed a bizarre new crackdown on 'perverted' language.
The secretive state adopted the new measures in December, fearing that its teenage citizens were growing too comfortable with words popular in neighbouring South Korea.
Now the authorities will reportedly inspect citizens’ phones, hunting for any use of banned expressions in private messages.
Those caught will be suspected of flouting the ban on South Korean TV and could face the gulag. Talking to Rimjingang, a Japan-based magazine focused on the dictatorship, one North Korean parent revealed the sort of harmless slang that could land kids in hot water.
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