North Korea urges youth to speak in standard language: Either this or prison and execution

North Korea urges youth to speak in standard language: Either this or prison and execution

The state-run North Korean media have called on young people not to use grigron from South Korea, telling them to speak in Korean-verial standard language. There have also been new warnings in the official North Korean newspapers against adopting clothing, hairstyle and music from South Korea. [...]

There have also been new warnings in the official North Korean newspapers against adopting clothing, hairstyle and music from South Korea.

This is part of a new law seeking to get rid of what foreign influence through severe penalties, reports the BBC, translates Periscope.

Those found to have violated the law will face imprisonment or even execution.

Rodong Sinmu, the government newspaper, warned young people about the dangers of South Korea's pop culture.

“Cultural and ideological penetration under multicolored bourgeois signs is even more dangerous than the enemies who grab weapons,” says there.

We remember that Albania under dictator Enver Hoxha's regime once had the same approach to foreign influence. /Periscope

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