As part of an effort to combat Western culture that has infiltrated the nation North Koreans have reportedly been prohibited from eating hot dogs.
Amid the growing popularity of a South Korean dish inspired by the United States President Kim Jong Un has declared that serving hotdogs was an act of treason according to The Sun.
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Divorcees may also be imprisoned in the nation’s notorious labour camps where those found selling or preparing hot dogs face the possibility of spending time there.
The regime has outlawed the sale of budae-jjigae, a dish imported from neighbouring South Korea as part of its attempts to suppress capitalist culture among its populace.
The ingredients of the spicy Korean-American hotpot include spam or hot dogs.
It began as a result of hungry locals using meat scraps from US soldiers stationed in the area during the Korean War in the 1950s to make stews.
Decades after it was created in the south the dish is thought to have crossed the border into North Korea in 2017.
