Kim Jong-un orders North Koreans to hand over pet dogs for meat amid food shortages: Report
Guwahati: North Korea is reportedly facing a food supply crisis and its controversial leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly ordered his people to hand over their pet dogs so they can be turned into meat for restaurants.
According to a report in the New Zealand Herald, the move by the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is thought to be aimed at quelling the rising discontent among the public as the economic situation in the secretive country is crumbling and food shortages have become a huge worry amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, reportedanly condemns pet ownership as a 'decadence' and orders dogs to be confiscated.
North Korea's leader is cracking down on pet ownership in the capital city of Pyongyang, decrying it as a Western "decadence" and "a 'tainted' trend by bourgeois ideology."
Kim in July ordered that dogs be confiscated, according to sources.
As per reports, "authorities have identified households with pet dogs and are forcing them to give them up or forcefully confiscating them and putting them down.''
Though dog-owners are saddened by the move, they can hardly do anything and have to accept the order.
This order has come amid rising discontent among the public as the economic situation in the country is crumbling and food shortages have become a major problem.
Flooding due to heavy rains has caused paddy crops to fail and the food supply has to suffer due to the coronavirus pandemic.