A North Korean mother has been threatened with jail after saving her two children from a house fire but allowing portraits of North Korea's leaders to burn.

The woman has been placed under investigation by the country's Ministry of State Security after a fire broke out in a home shared by two families in Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province, close to the Chinese border.

Both sets of parents were out at the time the fire started, but raced back to save their families after seeing smoke. In the process, one set of portraits was destroyed.

North Korea demands that every home display paintings of its past leaders, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, and sends inspectors to ensure that they do.

According to the Hermit Kingdom's laws, all depictions of the Kim family must be treated with the same reverence as the men themselves meaning failure to care for the portraits properly is a serious crime.

If found guilty, the mother is facing a lengthy prison sentence with hard labour.



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North Korea demands that every home display paintings of its past leaders, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, and sends inspectors to ensure that they do.

According to the Hermit Kingdom's laws, all depictions of the Kim family must be treated with the same reverence as the men themselves meaning failure to care for the portraits properly is a serious crime.

If found guilty, the mother is facing a lengthy prison sentence with hard labour.





Jun Yoo-sung, who fled the country in 2005, recalled such an incident in a 2015 interview.

'When a house was set on fire, some children were found burnt to death, holding on to those portraits,' she said.

Han Hyon-Gyong, 14, drowned trying to save her family's Kim portraits after a flash flood struck her home in Sinhung County, South Hamkyong, in 2012.


North Koreans who rescue their Kim portraits from floods and fires are feted as heroes especially if they die in the attempt.

Mehn this one off me
Kim Na correct narsisst.

The woman should be order to get another portrait. So simple

No source

I don't understand, I'm totally lost rn...
So Kim's ordinary portrait with no life is even more important than her own kid with life?

Iyammiiiii...

This is madness

This fat boy ehn....

I am speechless .
Even Nigeria haven't attain this level of foolishness .

I don't understand...I am totally lost as to what this means

Abeg, Lai Moh'd, Garba Shehu, Lauretta Onochie and the media team must not see this o.

Explorers, please don't include the source or link abeg, just say it is a joke .

DelTel:
Abeg, Lai Moh'd, Garba Shehu, Lauretta Onochie and the media team must not see this o.

Explorers, please don't include the source or link abeg, just say it is a joke .

Another link.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10705100/north-korea-gulag-save-kids-fire-kim-portraits/

I won't be surprised, North Korea players were once flogged for losing at a World Cup

this dont make sense atall....
soo,they rather loose soldiers than a picture....??

Damn!!

Would love to visit N.Korea one day.


Officially *tongue in cheek* of course.

luminouz:
Damn!!
Would love to visit N.Korea one day.

Officially *tongue in cheek* of course.

all the best bro!

Modaran

Hmm! Misuse of power. A lot of men have power these days but they don't know what to do with it to bring about God's favour upon the societies they have power on rather what they've succeeded in acheiving is God's displeasure or wrath.

Human beings are just funny. They are tested with power and they allow it get into their heads and they try to prove themselves higher than what they actually are.

But they forget that no matter how powerful a human being is, he'll always remain a human. A creature that was nothing until he was brought to life and will end up having that life taken away from him. A creature that came out from the passage where urine comes from. A creature in whom there's a vessel that houses stinking loads of feaces. A human that is weak and vulnerable. A mere mortal. A human that's prone to sickness and calamities. A human that has shortcomings. I wonder what is it about a human being to be so proud of.

When Imes comes, he'll come and show the world what real power is and how it can be used effectively for the good of all.

Imes will be coming to make all these "great" people look like "learners" (Man, Imes is bursting my brain.)

When Imes comes, people will know the kind of figures or personalities that should be revered and looked up to.

Imes, we await your coming.

A North Korean mother has been threatened with jail after saving her two children from a house fire but allowing portraits of North Korea's leaders to burn.

Are portraits now more important than children?

So it is now a good thing to smell burnt bodies than burnt portraits.....hmm!.people wicked oo.

Lol.... N.Korea is just a joke on its own...

BTW, what is their take on this hovering WW3 and beef between US and Iran.

I even thought it was Kim Kardashian

This doesn't make sense . Like an ordinary portrait is worth more than a human life? E be things !

The world should step into matters like this. The first time I read a novel about North Korea I thought it was fallacy till I started reading books and materials about that country. This is someone USA should attack with missiles

Too bad

This is super story ooooooo

There in NK, Kim is seen as a God. Many don't like him but they form high service because they can't risk a jail term or a death sentence. They even Gina's far as crying and wailing whenever he's around. Thats how feared he is. In the country, they cut their citizens from the outside world, they don't have access to the internet and the government feed them with propaganda and lies. They tell them they've been fighting a war with the US for decades and they're on the brink of surrendering. They tell them they are the most powerful nation on Earth and all sorts.

If you can brainwash like NK Government you would become quite powerful

Fake news!!!!!!

KingAzubuike:
There in NK, Kim is seen as a God. Many don't like him but they form high service because they can't risk a jail term or a death sentence. They even Gina's far as crying and wailing whenever he's around. Thats how feared he is. In the country, they cut their citizens from the outside world, they don't have access to the internet and the government feed them with propaganda and lies. They tell them they've been fighting a war with the US for decades and they're on the brink of surrendering. They tell them they are the most powerful nation on Earth and all sorts.

It's all acting , and they are doing it out if fear.... You must cry, else you don't know what tragic fate awaits you. There are soldiers around looking for people who don't show sufficient emotions. There were even reports that during the funeral of the last leader, those who didn't cry enough were gathered in a concentration camp and executed. It's just a terrible country to live in, a country where your life and freedom has been taken away from you. So the cries you see around Kim are not genuine . .....

Portraits over men only in North Korea. Madness.