Kim Jong Un's absurd rule: Do not converse ‘like a South Korean’, North Koreans informed | World News

North Korean intensified nationwide crackdown on “puppet language”- Korean spoken in South Korea. Anybody in North Korea caught utilizing slang or vocabulary from the South will face sentences which will embody arduous labour in a jail camp and even loss of life underneath the Pyongyang Cultural Language Safety Act, South China Morning Put up reported.

“Residents who're already accustomed to the South Korean means of talking now really feel like they must apply the Pyongyang dialect,” a resident within the northwestern province of North Pyongan informed Radio Free Asia.

“They're nervous that South Korean phrases will unintentionally or unknowingly come out of their mouths and that they are going to be punished,” he stated.

What phrases North Koreans can not use?

North Korean ladies can not name their husbands or boyfriends “jagiya” or “oppa”. As an alternative, they have to stick to “dongji,” (comrade), the report claimed. North Koreans additionally must keep away from utilizing South Korean mortgage phrases from English corresponding to ‘paesyeon’ (style), ‘heeoseutail’ (coiffure) and ‘waipeu’ (spouse).

“Even brazenly saying ‘I like you’ is proof that they've seen South Korean films and such language has turn out to be normalized,” the report added. North Korean authorities are making this modification as they're intent on “wiping out the rotten language of capitalism,”, RFA reported.

Earlier, there have been reported situations of individuals being punished for talking like South Koreans. There have additionally been surprising instances the place individuals had been executed for attempting to promote contraband movies and music.