The Daily Populous Tuesday January 7th, 2025 evening edition
Authored by nzherald.co.nz and submitted by bobongboi

Kim Jong Un has banned hotdogs from being cooked or sold in North Korea. Photo / Korean Central News Agency

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is known for his intense crackdowns on its citizens in everyday life and now a popular food item has been banned.

According to reports, Kim has banned North Koreans from eating hotdogs as part of a crackdown on Western culture slowly oozing its way into the hermit nation.

The hotdog has grown in popularity in South Korea, and Kim has sinced declared that serving sausages is now an act of treason against North Korea.

It is claimed that people caught cooking or selling hotdogs could find themselves arrested and sentenced to hard labour in their infamous labour camps.

Hotdogs aren’t the only food to be the subject of a brutal crackdown.

mPORTZER on January 6th, 2025 at 15:48 UTC »

Do you really think that happened? Like if you dig deep, you believe this?

SEND_ME_CSGO-SKINS on January 6th, 2025 at 15:42 UTC »

Radio Free Asia slop article. North Korea is bad enough that there’s no reason to make stuff up

EffectiveSalamander on January 6th, 2025 at 15:06 UTC »

> Kim has also forbidden the sale of budae-jjigae, a South Korean-American fusion dish made from an umami-rich broth, Korean hot pepper paste, flakes, kimchi, and American Spam, beans, and sausage.

> The hotpot dish, which means “army base stew”, contains hotdog meat or spam which has been banned in the North.

> The fusion dish appears to have crossed the border into North Korea around 2017, more than 50 years after its creation in the South.

I've never had a chance to try this, but I've seen it on a menu as "All-American Soup." It has it's origins just after the Korean War. Meat was really scarce with the war, and getting Spam or hot dogs was a big deal. I wonder if the North Koreans were getting Spam smuggled across the border of if they were using a North Korean equivalent. I can see why a repressive regime would suppress anything foreign, even something as benign as food. Anything even the slightest bit different is a threat to a dictator's control of the populace.