Yes, Kim-Jong-un seeking new and better ways to subjugate and imprison malcontents has started a "war" on jeans, slang and movies. Because nothing is normal in North Korea anyone caught with a pair of jeans, not only will they end up in one of Kim's gulags their entire family will join them and the same punish awaits those using slang. As for the those movies? Well it looks like the firing squad for you. Working this hard to keep North Koreans completely ignorant of the outside world must be quite exhausting.
Imagine being in a constant state of lockdown with no internet, no social media and only a few state controlled television channels designed to tell you what the country's leaders want you to hear - this is life in North Korea.
And now its leader Kim Jong-Un has clamped down further, introducing a sweeping new law against what the regime describes as "reactionary thought".
Anyone caught with large amounts of media from South Korea, the United States or Japan now faces the death penalty. Those caught watching face prison camp for 15 years.
And it's not just about what people watch.
Recently, Mr Kim wrote a letter in state media calling on the country's Youth League to crack down on "unsavoury, individualistic, anti-socialist behaviour" among young people. He wants to stop foreign speech, hairstyles and clothes which he described as "dangerous poisons".
Let's face it. North Korea is just one giant gulag.
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