The new law forbids anyone from making any sarcastic remarks about the leader and the government in everyday conversations.
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North Koreans were warned about using such expressions in mass meetings, where they were more or less told, “Keep your mouths shut”, according to Radio Free Asia. “We will be working together very closely in the (U.N.) Security Council and beyond to come out with the strongest possible measures against North Korea’s actions”, Sung Kim, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy told reporters following his meeting with Kenji Kanasugi, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau in Tokyo. “This is all America’s fault” is one of the banned phases that allude to Mr Kim’s default position of blaming the United States for everything that goes wrong.
Graffiti mocking production slogans appeared at a construction site in Pyongyang, while more scandalous graffiti personally attacking Kim has been seen in areas near China.
Another mocking expression, “A fool who can not see the outside world”, was also said to be circulating in the totalitarian state, referring to the country’s notoriously isolationist leader. Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team?
Kim added that the two countries will also look at unilateral measures, bilateral measures and trilateral cooperation with South Korea in response to “provocative and unacceptable behavior by the North Koreans”.
Monitors earlier Friday reported an quake near North Korea’s northeastern nuclear test site, a strong indication of a nuclear test.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye strongly condemned the nuclear test, saying in a statement that it showed the “fanatic recklessness of the Kim Jong Un government as it clings to a nuclear development”.
Washington and Tokyo are seeking “the strongest possible” measures against North Korea after its latest and most powerful nuclear test, a top U.S. envoy said Sunday, September 11.
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He says: “We are monitoring and continuing to assess the situation in close coordination with our regional partners”.
