North Korea Orders Pet Dogs To Be Confiscated For Restaurant Meat To Fight Food Shortage

Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader has ordered pet dogs to be confiscated in the country’s capital. The reason given was that the pooches represent Western “decadence’’. However, pet owners fear they are really being rounded-up to be sold to restaurants for meat to fight food shortage.

North Korea Orders Pet Dogs To Be Confiscated For Restaurant Meat To Fight Food Shortage

Kim issued the directive in July to round up the pets, claiming they were part of “a ‘tainted’ trend by bourgeouis ideology,’’ a source told the English edition of Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper.

North Korea has launched a clampdown on the ownership of pet dogs among the Pyongyang elite as food supplies run short.

Trumpeted as protecting the country against capitalist "decadence," the move appears aimed at appeasing increasing public discontent amid the dire economic situation.

However, pet ownership was long considered West...

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