Recently some of the international medias reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has banned its citizens from laughing, drinking and shopping from 17th December 2021 onwards as a part of the 11-days mourning on the 10th anniversary of former North Korean leader and Kim Jong Un’s father Kim Jong-il.
During this 11 days mourning period, people cannot drink alcohol, celebrate birthdays, laugh or engage any kind of entertainment activities.
Relatives and the family members are not able to cry or making loud voice even if somebody dies from their family. Dead body can be taken out for cremation only after the 11 days mourning period of Kim Jong-il ends.
If anyone found violating Kim Jong-Un’s order, they would be punished severely. Earlier many people have been caught by drinking alcohol during the mourning period and they have been severely punished.
Kim Jong-il was the second of the Kim family dynasty who ruled North Korea for a period of 17 years until his death occurred on 17th December,2011.
Kim Jong Il died by heart attack at the age of 69. Prior to his death, Kim Jong Il have already laid the groundwork for his son Kim Jong Un’s political career to run the country smoothly.
When Kim Jong Il was ruling the country, his regime has carried out its first underground nuclear test in 2006, subsequently claimed for acquiring nuclear weapons.
In 2009 North Korea carried out its second underground nuclear test that was drawing widespread international condemnation.
Present North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been following the same political path of his predecessors and he is still running North Korea as a most secretive country in the world.
As the entire visual and the print medias strictly controlled by the government, it is highly difficult to get the factual information from North Korea.
North Korean people are now suffering heavily due to the ongoing economic sanctions imposed by United Nations, COVID-19 pandemic, growing mismanagement of resources, etc.
Kim Jong-Un took over the power of North Korea soon after his father’s death in 2011. At that time his age was 27 only.
As Kim Jong-Un was too young at the time of his father’s death, many internal and external political pundits predicted that he would fail in resolving the problems of North Korea.
Contrary to their prediction, the shrewd and the determined Kim Jong Un successfully managed in continuing the power and quickly stabilized North Korea’s unstable political situation.
In 2013, Kim Jong Un acted ruthlessly when his own uncle and his close adviser allegely plotted for an unsucsessful coup to unseat Kim Jong Un from the power.
Kim Jong Un regime killed his uncle ruthlessly by throwing him into a cage where many hungry ferocious dogs were available. Kim Jong Un himself witnessed the way the hungry ferocious dogs were killing and eating his uncle from the cage. At the same time his regime also killed many of his uncle’s die hard supporters.
Ever since he became the leader of North Korea, his regime killed hundreds of top government officials, many army generals, cabinet ministers, party functionaries due to suspicion. That is the reason he is widely known as a ruthless leader.
Though he can’t challenge world powers such as U.S. and their NATO-E.U. allies, but still he is threatening U.S., South Korea and Japan with the support of his country’s nuclear war heads as well as long and short range missiles.
Kim Jong Un is a clever politician who knows how to play politics with United States. By showing his country’s one million plus strong army, nuclear arsenal and varieties of Inter continental ballistic missiles, he is still threatening the world powers and keep continue ruling North Korea in a dictatorial manner.