KING JONG UN BANNED ANY TALKS OF HAMBURGERS, ICE CREAM AND KARAOKE FOR BIZARRE REASON

For an odd reason, Kim Jong Un recently "banned" any reference to karaoke, ice cream, and hamburgers.

According to reports, the North Korean leader has instructed tour guides at the nation's newly built beachside resort of Wonsan to refrain from using specific terms when speaking with visitors. Burgers, karaoke, and ice cream are among the popular Westernised and Anglicised phrases in the West and neighbouring South Korea that are prohibited. 

According to the Daily Mail, the guides, who are enrolled in rigorous state-run training programs, have been told to say "dajin-gogi gyeopppang," which translates to "double bread with ground beef" for hamburgers and "eseukimo" (Eskimo) for ice cream.

Regarding karaoke, the team is reportedly told to refer to them as "on-screen accompaniment machines," which is a mouthful. The guides have been given "extensive training on handling and entertaining tourists, and must memorise slogans and phrases," according to the local press, Daily NK. 

The statement goes on to say, "The objective is to instruct tourist workers to intentionally utilise North Korean vocabulary while avoiding South Korean idioms and foreign loanwords."

The action was taken in response to a new UN assessment that was released on September 12 and asserts that due to "much more misery to the populace," human rights in the nation have "degraded" over the past ten years since their last review in 2014.

The group points to heightened monitoring, control, isolation, and limited access to food for its population, as well as the usage of political prison camps, the widespread use of the death penalty, child labour, and the disappearance of thousands of people, including kidnapped foreign nationals. "In today's world, no other population is subject to such restrictions," it continues. 

Public executions for disseminating foreign information and even media, such as TV dramas, music, and films from so-called "hostile" countries, as well as "linguistic expressions" that do not adhere to "socialist ideology and culture," have also been increased by the state, which is led by dictatorial supreme leader Kim Jong Un.

In an effort to find "anti-socialist materials," a government task team is still conducting warrantless home invasions to examine computers, radios, and televisions.

According to the report, officials have been empowered to crack down on cases "more harshly" due to "improved surveillance technologies" and a "greater desire to prevent the use or transmission of foreign media."

"Public trials and executions have been held by the government to terrorise the populace and serve as a deterrent."

The government presently controls all of the state's media, and any independent news or opinion pieces that do not align with the state's position are deemed "counter-revolutionary" and are penalised by the state's publishing and broadcasting rules. 

In addition, citizens are required to join a Workers' Party of Korea-affiliated organisation to spread ideology, conduct surveillance, or organise the populace for government-initiated directives about labour, farming, and construction. Each individual is also required to take part in weekly self-criticism sessions.

Despite the dangers, the UN finds that people are still consuming material that is forbidden.