Under the Rejection of Reactionary Thought and Culture Act, authorities ruled that any woman wearing knee-length clothing violated the principles of ‘socialist etiquette’.
“AUTHORITIES DISCRIMINATE US”
An anonymous person in Pyongyang, North Korea, spoke to Radio Free Asia. “Authorities are stopping women wearing shorts on the streets, saying they don’t conform to socialist traditions and lifestyles,” the person said in a statement. said.
Stating that in the past years, wide-legged skirt trousers were put under pressure, arguing that they were in Japanese fashion, and said, “Many women complain, asking why men can wear shorts but women cannot. They say that the authorities discriminate against us.” said.
NEARLY ALL SOCIAL FREEDOMS ARE PROHIBITED IN NORTH KOREA
North Korea, which has a policy of administration closed to the outside world, regularly struggles with famine. People who have little access to basic health services, on the other hand, live under the constant threat of punishment.
“The government systematically denies all fundamental freedoms, including freedom of expression, public assembly, freedom of association and religion,” Human Rights Watch said in a report on social freedoms in the country. it’s called.
Fear of collective punishment is used to silence opposition. Authorities in North Korea routinely test those perceived to be anti-government through torture, starvation and forced labor by guards. On the other hand, those determined to be dissidents are sent to secret political prison camps in remote areas.
In this context, it paves the way for women who do not comply with the new ban on wearing shorts to be sentenced to all kinds of disproportionate punishments.
WHO IS LEADING ALL THE COUNTRY’S RESOURCES TO NUCLEAR ENERGY?
As the third member of the Kim line to come to power in North Korea, Kim Jong Un spends nearly all of his country’s wealth and resources developing the world’s most powerful missile and nuclear “strategic arsenal.”
Last week, Kim fired his army’s top general and called for greater preparations for the possibility of war, an increase in weapons production and an expansion of military exercises.