North Korea's CRAZIEST Laws

Of all the countries in the world, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, better known as North Korea, might be the most mysterious, nicknamed The Hermit Kingdom. It is famous for its isolation and independence, but also for its surprising lack of human rights because it exists under the iron fist rule of a dictatorship headed by Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, its

laws

are some of the most extreme in the world, So with that in mind, let's lay out some of the

craziest

laws

that have ever been enforced here that we know of. lose now we've all fallen asleep and we didn't mean to, maybe it was in a zoom meeting or at a school desk and while you can expect some kind of punishment, you never expect capital punishment for it, well, I would you do in North Korea in Defense Minister Hungy Chol was reportedly ordered to take a nap during military rallies in 2015.

Kim Jong-un had him removed from office immediately and the sentence was carried out in public to send a message that laziness and insubordination will not be tolerated. For everyone in the country, the crazy thing is that this is not the only time it happens, just a year later in 2016, North Korea's Minister of Education, Kim Young Jinn, was sent in front of hundreds of people for having a bad posture during a party rally where the supreme leader was. So disgusted with his poor stance, Kimyong Jin was interrogated before being labeled an anti-revolutionary anti-artistic agitator and sentenced to capital punishment.

Now that's a rude awakening. Ticket to Ride bikes are an essential train transportation option for many people who live or work in busy cities, however in North Korea bikes were banned from the streets of its capital Pongyang, unlike in neighboring China , which over the last century saw a natural progression from walking to cycling to motorization Transportation North Korea wanted to accelerate this progression by banning bicycles and insisting that its citizens rely on motorized vehicles to get around, this might have worked if its economy would not have completely collapsed in 1991, leaving most North Koreans too poor to afford enough to eat, let alone a proper car.

In 1992, Beany Yang's bicycle ban was lifted. but even now most of its citizens remain too poor to afford a car, so it is mainly bicycles that are used on the empty roads. After this, you would expect that transportation options would have improved, but sadly it was not from 1995 that the state decided to ban women from owning and riding bicycles. The regime's reasoning for the ban was that seeing an attractive woman on Bicycle was considered too suggestive and would damage public morale. She's just riding a bike, that says a lot more about the ruling party being a pervert than anything else. argued that women were genetically incapable of driving traffic, making them a danger to others.

Okay, North Korea, it's time to keep quiet and pay attention for a hot minute. Men are universally responsible for more traffic-related accidents and deaths than women in 2021 in the United States alone. women were responsible for around 6,000 fatal accidents, that number was three and A2 times higher with over 21,000 for men, so their genetic inability argument just hit a wall anyway, the ban was briefly lifted in 2012, but then the rule was reinstated in early 2013 today. It is flexible thanks to the lack of motorized public transport in the main cities of the country but we cannot say as much about the state of women's rights in the country talking about what dictatorship to dress I don't know about you but I live in jeans I couldn't imagine Not being able to wear them, they are now a wardrobe staple, what if I told you they were completely banned in North Korea since mid-2020?

Kim Jong-un has announced a crackdown on Western influences, including all gene styles, but Well, this dates back to the division of Korea in 1945, when South Korea, backed by the capitalist United States, fought the North. , backed by the communist Soviet Union, for control of the country, since the citizens of the division have been taught to see the Americans. American capitalism and the Western world are the enemy, along with all their influences and values, but not just jeans, unless you have a work uniform, technically women are not allowed to wear pants in North Korea, the law can still be enforced. to this day, but difficult to enforce in a nation of 26 million people, if women are caught wearing them, a patriotic member of the Youth League can, and will, interrogate the individual and force her to write a letter confessing the crime that they even have the power to access.

Government-controlled loudspeakers broadcast to the public the woman's name, her home address, and her place of work. If they can cheat you just for wearing pants, imagine the sentence they would hand down for what Tik Tok influencers think is trendy these days, between the bike ban and the jeans ban. Which rule do you think is the most ridiculous? For bikes, hit the like button and for jeans, hit the subscribe button. All set, what will be the next bad hair day in the west? Hair is often used to express your individuality. Some of us choose to have a spiky Mohawk or bright blue hair, even the mullet is back in style.

I never thought I'd see the day, but extreme hairstyles are discouraged in North Korea, you'll probably be stopped again by the pathetic, pitiful Patriotic Youth League and then forced to do it. remove or cut the style chosen in 2013, the state published a guide of 28 approved hairstyles, 10 for men and 18 for women, although there are a few more styles to choose from today, it is still prohibited for men to have hair longer than 2 inches and you are only allowed to let it grow up to three if you are over 60 years old, how generous they are, as a result, young men must cut their hair every 15 days before it grows; women who have short hair are allowed when you are married with long hair and curly hairstyles that look like those worn in the West in the 1980s, they are allowed when you are young and single, better than the uncut Kim Jong.

I guess there are no kimations with 8 billion people on the planet, surely there is someone out there. there who has the same name as you, but Kim Jong-un decided Ed that his name should be unique and now all North Koreans are prohibited from sharing it, that's right, everyone called Jong Un was forced to completely change their name in 2011, the year it became. The supreme leader also recently expanded this rule to include the name of his daughter, Kim Jouer, who at the moment appears to be his successor, while there is no exact number on the number of people who had to change their name from Jong-un. , which was an extremely common name among North Korea, so he basically became the only Kim Jong-un to rule them all.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were a couple of Hobbits trying to take down this dictator. Your offensive thanks to the advancement of cell phone technology. you can call almost anyone anywhere in the world, unless they are in North Korea as standard. The country's popular national mobile phone service, Corol Link, blocks all international calling signals. Jammers are used at the country's borders and almost all electronic communications are monitored while it is It is estimated that around 80% of North Korean households own at least one mobile phone and making even an international call can justify a death sentence, but?

Why does the North Korean government specifically censor and prohibit the dissemination of information so that outside influences do not enter? and Vital Information cannot be output as such. Any form of international communication without specific government authorization is prohibited. The fear is that contact with people from the outside could prompt citizens to realize how hard the regime is undoing decades of brainwashing through propaganda. They have been fed daily and subsequently their citizens will try to flee or rise up against the government and en masse. Back in 2014, a man used a smuggled phone and SIM card to make several international calls and was sent for contacting his defected family. to South Korea, he unfortunately did not have enough time to hide the phone before officials picked up his signal and knocked on his door.

His passing was used to set a very public example of those who break the rules in the worst possible way. Many of us dream of being able to buy a house one day. Having our own home is considered by most to be a basic necessity, but this is not the case in North Korea as it is in so many other things here. The government controls all properties in the country. All buildings are technically owned. by the state and citizens are assigned their housing by them it is also even more difficult to make a living in a big city.

North Koreans should be granted permission to live in the country's capital, Pongyang. It is also illegal to rent or exchange your home. But since 2000, the North Koreans have used a clever loophole in the system, although they do not have property rights, they do have residency rights. This is confirmed by a certificate known as an ipsa Jun, a document that shows that the person lives in a specific place where the North Koreans have been. issue new certificates under other names and cancel the oldest ones, thus passing ownership to another person, but because it evades the law. Citizens need enough money to bribe city officials to turn a blind eye.

A back of cigarettes or a good bottle of liquor apparently does the trick; cash can expect you to pay as little as $50 to $100 to secure the exchange. I mean, if you're going to limit people's freedom as harshly as this, you have to expect people to fight back somehow. the totally crazy laws imposed by the North Korean government this next could be the

craziest

Kim Jong-un and his regime have completely banned smiling on July 8 of each year, this date is important in the country as the date of death of the founder and former president. Kim Ilung, who passed away in 1994, on each anniversary of his death, citizens are not allowed to smile, talk loudly, dance or drink alcohol, nor are they allowed to have celebrations or fun activities, so if it is your birthday that day, you will be out of luck if you ignore these rules. will send you to the labor camp and may even be grounds for your shipment.

Who would have thought that smiling could be a capital crime? Well in recent times it has only gotten worse, the government banned laughing for 11 days straight in a show of mourning, this rule was enforced. to honor the 10th anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-un's predecessor and mother father, this has to be the strangest family tradition ever allowed online, it is extremely difficult to imagine our lives without the Internet, now over 65 % of the world's population has access to it and 5.3 billion people actively use it. You're using it to watch this video right now, and yet North Koreans can't use it like we do instead of the Internet that North Korea provides to its citizens. access to an intranet, a purely national network known as Quang Meang, which in 2014 boasted of giving its users access to 5,500 websites, including video games, although all communications and activities on them are monitored.

There is no privacy here. Certainly, access can be granted to state officials. Internet in general, but since information suppression is so important to the regime, even this may be limited. In 2016, a security engineer discovered that North Korea had created 28 websites generally available on the Internet, including friend.com KP, a kind of hyperpolitical Facebook. which apparently has about 18 million members, there's also cook.or KP, a recipe website, and core film.com KP, where you can watch hundreds of North Korean movies, documentaries, and even anime. Yes, anime. More sites are believed to have been added in recent years, but they are still compared.

For the two billion sites on the world wide web, it's barely anything, job, jail when you were younger, what did you want to be when you grew up? An astronaut, a dancer, a YouTuber, yes you can tell which one it was, unfortunately, North Korean children can't. I can't dream because everyone's life's work is delegated by the government. Because? Well, that's simple. Maintain rigid control of resources under your system of collectivism. The government researches how many people are needed in each industry and location and then assigns people accordingly when children graduate from schoolsecondary. The government assigns each and every graduate jobs that they deem suitable or necessary, what children or their parents want is not taken into account unless there are large bribes involved and once you are assigned a job it is almost impossible to transfer you, for example during Kim Jong's Rain oversaw an area called tongen gun that had a good supply of potatoes but had few people living in it, so thousands of graduates were relocated to riang gang to become lifelong potato farmers .

They had to build houses with their own hands and they knew that their children would probably become potato farmers too thanks to the system, but there was nothing they could do well at least. I really hope you like potatoes. Faith forbidden in the West. Freedom of religion is a pretty essential human right that you can choose. believe whatever you want being that the Son of God walked among us as the Bible teaches or that Galactic Warlords invaded our volcanoes 75 million years ago as Scientology claims, but in North Korea freedom of faith does not exist in 2014 a American was imprisoned for 5 months for leaving his Bible in the bathroom of a North Korean restaurant, the outrage this incident caused is due to the fact that North Korea is a majority atheist state with a whopping 70% of its citizens having no religion, although there are churches located in pongyang.

The buildings are completely operated by the state. Tourists have reported that churches may close during advertised sermon times and when they are open they are filled with political propaganda and false believers who observe the Christian religion as in North Korea is completely restricted because having faith in a greater power is a more saving figure. similar conflicts with having faith in the reigning regime, you can't believe in both, according to North Korea, it's the Kim family or nothing. An extreme case in 20203 involved the arrest of a family, including their 2-year-old daughter, for possessing a Bible. all family members, including the toddler, were apparently sentenced to life in prison.

Yes, Kim Jong-un will definitely go to hell for this. Three people. Many things can be considered good luck. A symbol. A number or even worship a particular God. In North Korea, triplets are. They are supposed to represent good fortune, not only are they revered due to the falling birth rate in the country, but they are also signs of luck and prosperity, which is why when triplets are born, the state automatically takes them away, the regime will have the mother. fly to pyang to receive the best care when giving birth, the government will give gifts to the parents in exchange for the children, a gold ring for the girls and a silver knife for the boys, the children will only be returned to their parents at the age of four after Being raised in a state orphanage or daycare in the city, even after you have grown up, being a triplet will give you better access to monetary success and quality of life in North Korea, with better chances of being admitted to the military or attending college.

Giving special benefits is good, but separating children from their families because they are considered lucky. Ironically, I'd say he's actually a rather unfortunate mortal relative. If you have siblings, they've probably blamed you for something they did at some point. Was it deliberate or an accident? Getting the heat for your family's mistakes feels unfair, but in North Korea you can be imprisoned just for being involved with a criminal. This is what is known as the three-generation sentence or kinship punishment. This means that committing a crime will also condemn three generations of your family, which could be your children and grandchildren or your parents and grandparents.

With a rule like this, the government discourages the vast majority of people from rebelling, since it is not uncommon for an entire family to receive a life sentence for the action of a criminal. Children born in prison are also raised as prisoners because their blood is considered guilty. By association. Gosh, this law started after World War II ended in an effort to eliminate the bloodline of the North Korean rebels. The only thing is that World War II ended almost 100 years ago. ago and this rule is still in force, which makes it as old as the time is horrible War, we are at the beginning of the 21st century, that is what it says in all the calendars right wrong 168 countries use the Gregorian calendar but some use their own and North Korea is one of them.

They have their own system called ju, an ideology focused on self-sufficiency and independence from the outside world. The juj calendar is unique because it only dates back to April 15, 1912, because that is the birth date of the founding father of North Korea. Kim Ilung, this became year number one and all subsequent years are now numbered that way, for example the year 2010 was actually the 99th year in North Korea. There are also no days before ju, which means that history before 1912 is not talked about well. o I learned, yes, it's true, children's education is also full of propaganda, the calendar was officially implemented on September 9 1997 and on that date all North Korean newspapers, radio stations, birth certificates and other media became as if keeping track of the date wasn't difficult enough.

It's no laughing matter when the president of the United States was asked if they were worried about the national debt, you know what they said, no, it's big enough to stand on its own, yeah, that was a pretty bad joke, though the worst I'll get is something Keyboard Warriors in the comments Down on North Korea, although a joke like that could have cost me my life, seriously, anything disrespectful to the Kim family in particular is considered blasphemy and would have serious consequences, even a minor Jive, this does not have to be so. It can be verbal disrespect, whether portraits of leaders Kim Ilung and Kim Jong III are hung in every house and it is mandatory to wear party badges with their images on clothing.

Not taking care to maintain or even dust them properly can cause you problems. To combat this, each family is given a special duster specifically for cleaning these portraits. The Kim family and their government are to be revered, almost regarded as gods, so it is no wonder that some people bow to them every morning. Fortunately, we are incredibly out of this. jurisdiction free of selfish jokes so take a hike Kim Jong is not fun DV don't do it in the 1960s Television became a must-have in Western homes with a total of only three channels to watch of course, There are now hundreds of television broadcasts to spoil you, but unsurprisingly, North Korea is stuck in the past, offering only four state television channels to choose from that exclusively show programs glorifying the regime and its achievements.

Everything else is prohibited. This applies to all foreign media, including movies, music, and even books, if determined by the Propaganda Department. Just one item from Bann's grand list in a citizen's possession, his entire collection can be destroyed. Punishments vary depending on the content and background of the smuggling. Watching an Indian movie can get you sent to prison, but an American movie can sign your clearance certificate. In 2021, a man was sent for distributing copies of the North Korean thriller series The Squid Game. This crime was particularly serious as the show mentions the North Korean regime and paints it in a negative light by including a fictional defector from the country;

However, experts have debated whether this report is real or not, since the blockade of the country that saw its borders closed to all trade would have made smuggling impossible and yet the government has not denied it, so it is It is possible that the story was spread to prevent someone in North Korea. to acquire it that's as smart as it is Sinister banned brands Nowadays you won't find many things without a big brand, we drink Coca-Cola often we buy McDonald's from time to time, but North Korea hates brands, especially American ones. related to capitalist life, exactly the opposite of the communist socialist dream for which the Kim dynasty fights.

Because of this, the country is one of the only places in the world that does not sell Coca-Cola and you would be hard pressed to find a McDonald's there. It also has its own fast food chains, such as S Song, a burger joint whose locations are limited exclusively to Pongyang. , but this is only for tourists and the elite as it is a trading company owned and operated by Kim Jong-un. Instead of relying on fast food, the majority of the population relies on traditional staples such as kimchi and potatoes, while this is partly due to the avoidance of all things Western.

The economic sanctions imposed by the United States on North Korea mean that trade between the two countries is practically non-existent. However, there is a huge Mount Everest level of hypocrisy siiz in this Rule the Day song department store that caters to the elite in Panyang selling luxury brands like Rolex Dior Chanel and even more common brands like Adidas, which are all Western capitalist brands. ONU's wife, Marie Oldj, likes to wear these expensive Western brands, so the brands are off-limits if you're poor, but it's okay to buy them if you're part of the elite. I don't know about you, but that sounds less like communism and more like a new brand of capitalism portrait protectors in a fire what's the first thing you grab would obviously be the most precious thing to you right, a parent would instantly grab their child or a loving owner could grab your pet well in North Korea the first thing you have to take with you are those damn portraits, no, really, when a disaster strikes, the first thing citizens should do is save the photographs of Kim Ilung and Kim Jong Il and Only after this will they be able to save their own lives and belongings.

I respect the leaders as we have arrived. It's no joke, in 2020 it was reported that a mother of two was actually facing jail time after saving her children from a fire and leaving photos of her behind. We can hope that she is no longer detained by the state, but something tells me North Korea. The government loves to hold a grudge over the rules of the game. If you are a basketball fan, you might feel a little confused when watching a North Korean game, as we have learned that North Korea has its own way of doing things, so naturally their basketball games They are very varied. different first of all the famous triple is worth four points if the ball passes through the net without hitting the basket or the backboard and a dunk acquires an extra point so it is worth three instead of two that is not the whole point you can deduct for every miss Free throws and any field goals made in the last 3 seconds of a game can not only give your team an extra, but can also completely change the outcome with an increase of eight points.

Games can also end in a tie against opponents, something that is rare normally. rule book Kim Jong supposedly added these amendments because he thought they could improve the rules of the game. Oh my God! This man's ego is incredible. Also, it turns out that he was a fan of the Chicago Bulls team from the 1990s, you know, that famous American team that is a A stroke of hypocrisy right there, which of these rules and laws did you think was the craziest of all? And, controversially, are there any you agree with? Let me know in the comments and thanks for watching.