Kim Jong-un bans hotdogs for North Koreans, cooking them an act of treason
It's one of the most popular items around the world. Now it's banned in North Korea.
You just need to move the hyphen:
Kim Jung un-bans hotdogs for North Koreans
That's actually what I read the first time.
hyphen
So... like a day later I'm seeing the headline again after having previously read your comment, and now that's how I read it.
According to Radio Free Asia...
We find the real source of the story buried near the bottom to avoid embarrassment. Must have been a slow news day in New Zealand 🤣 🤣 🤣
Seems I guessed that right from the headline. There's plenty to shit on, like their soldiers being sent to the Ukrainian meat grinder. But when you see "country bans cheap food" or "country requires kim jong haircuts for everyone", don't be gullible.
NZ Herald is borderline tabloid. They just want the clicks. And then paywall some articles. And I'm pretty sure they were the ones caught using ChatGPT to write articles. I'm in NZ and actively avoid them.
When Kim Jong-un goes on a diet, everyone goes on a diet!
TBF everyone is always on a diet even when he isn't
He's literally the fattest man in a starving country. Figuratively too.
Naw, he wants them all for himself.
When tf does Kim jong un go on a diet???
Hey Kim:
What is this movie? I want to see it now.
It's from the Game of Thrones series, that's Ramsey Bolton taunting Theon Greyjoy, and you want to stop watching it quite some while before the final season as the show runners can't write for shit and GRR Martin hasn't finished the actual story yet. The beginning is great, though. And so is, so far, House of Dragons, at least for that one the story is finished as it's a prequel so I'm quite confident it's not going to turn into a total disaster.
“I know you are all starving, but I’m going to ban some more food.”
Hot dogs are reserved for Dear Leader
He looked at his fingers and thought "I hope no one eats these. I better do something about that."
And stuff my face so full I'll die because of it.
If only...
How do people keep up with all these petty laws? If my country banned hotdogs there's a decent chance I'd miss the announcement and accidentally put a frankfurter in a bun. I could miss it completely and I have internet! How does your average person on North Korea find out about this ban on putting sausages in bread?
They don't because this is obviously fake...
radio free asia makes shit up all the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E
it gets clicks and they're an easy target so they just say whatever they think will get the most clicks.
Ignoring the question of whether this is real, you'd probably find out when you can't find them at the store, order from your supplier, etc.
Basically, it would get noticed earlier in the supply chain.
Seems the government would control any hot dog factories anyway
Or this is food smuggled in, which I imagine would already be illegal.
It helps that everyone is corrupt and a general sense of displaying loyalty is more important than any supposed law on it's own.
This is actually the default way civilisation works - Western-style rule of law is new and weird.
That Buttigieg looks pretty tasty.
Divorce is considered an anti-socialist act
I would argue it's quite socialist. Return the pussy to the people.
Gross
We joke about hotdogs being mystery meat, but North Korean hotdogs have to be a terrifying enigma of amalgamated animal proteins.
Supposedly the produce in North Korea is really really good since no one will sell them modern farming equipment or technology, so it's all done using old methods.
I guess we're posting The Sun and The New York Post articles now...?
The source is neither, but you can choose your preferred link: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=north+korea+bans+hotdogs
There’s no credible sources in any of this. A ban may or may not have come to pass, and if it has, it’s possible it’s for some health-related reason, similarly to how processed meats have been taken out of school lunches in other countries. The news itself is not necessarily false, but there’s a definitive spin to this as with almost all English-language news on North Korea. Unfortunately it’s hard for any of us to get any objective info on what’s happening in the country.
Cold hot dogs are allowed. Got it.
What about hot cold dogs?
Oh, I see! We give him a hot cold-dog to warm his icy heart?
No! Only cold dogs.
Damn he is really listening to Kennedy Jr.
Scrounging around for components for their nukes I see..
❌ Hotdogs
✅ Actual dogs
Why are you all believing this obvious piece of false information?
.ml account
No I'm not, that's why lemmy.ml and hexbear, including its "counterpropaganda" brigading, is on my block list.
Alright, now he's crossed the line!
Well there goes my dream of eating a hotdog in North Korea.
Well you could eat one in South Korea instead. They love hotdogs there. They have developed some cool new takes on the corndog:
Don't worry, you can have a hotcat or a hotdonkey
I used to date a girl who liked the hot donkey.
I really want to balance a tea set on his hair. So flat.
Great now I'm hungry for hot dogs.
He doesn't want any reminders of the throat goat Trump in his country
Post was falsely reported as "tabloid" and erroneously removed.
Restored:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-zealand-herald/
High Credibility sources should never be removed.
Hey mate, the original source isn't the NZ Herald but The Sun. I did a little extra digging for another related post (because the mod got my knickers in a twist) which I'll copy below. Do with it what you will, I'm rather over hot dogs.
The Sun, a tabloid rag with a history of false reporting, is the only original reporting. The other outlets are parroting them, some without attribution by simply stating "according to reports" like the above linked NZ Herald, or indirectly by attributing to a report which attributes it to another and so on, until it ultimately gets back to The Sun, like in this India Times article.
NYT: "Dictator Kim Jong Un has declared that serving the sausage was an act of treason, The Sun reports..."
Vice: "One thing to keep in mind about this report is that you have to take it with a grain of salt. It originates from The Sun, a tabloid that doesn’t have a ton of credibility." -Emphasis mine because it's funny-
The Mirror: . "One vendor, who is based in the northern province of Ryanggang, stressed that authorities have been monitoring them closely. The vendor told The Sun..."
Can't imagine they import them. Just don't make them then.
They are gross anyways.
