North Korea haha women are forbidden to wear shorts in the final crackdown against each behavior or practice that is considered foreign or capitalist.

Under the latest application of the Rejection of Reactionary Thinking and Culture Act, officials stated that any woman who wears clothing that does not reach below the knee mocks the principles of “socialist etiquette.”

The decision comes with temperatures above 30C in a country where summers are long and humid. A resident of North Korea’s South Pyongan province told Radio Free Asia on condition of anonymity: “The authorities detain women in shorts on the streets and say this is not in line with socialist tradition and lifestyle.”

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“A few years ago they were taking cracked on flared skirt pants and said it was Japanese fashion. Many women complain and ask why men can wear shorts and women can’t. They say the authorities discriminate,” he said.

A Human Rights Watch report on social freedoms in the country says: “The government systematically denies all fundamental freedoms, including freedom of expression, public assembly, association and religion.”

Women caught breaking the no-shorts rules can be hit with all sorts of disproportionate punishments.

Kim Jong Un, the third member of the Kim lineage to seize power in North Korea, has invested nearly all of his country’s wealth and resources in the pursuit of an obsessive mission: cultivating the “strategic arsenal” of missiles and devices. plants in the world. .

Meanwhile, it has intensified anti-Western and anti-capitalist rhetoric, with North Korean citizens raised to view South Korea and much of the rest of the world as a threat to their very existence that must be fought at all costs.