North Korean kids face gulag for breaking ban on ‘perverted’ textspeak

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NORTH Koreans could be sent to labour camps for flouting a tyrannical ban on slang or textspeak.

Madcap leader Kim Jong-un fears teens are using words popular in democratic South Korea.

Kim Jong-un has banned slang and textspeak in North Korea

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Kim Jong-un has banned slang and textspeak in North KoreaCredit: AP:Associated Press

Authorities in the secretive state will inspect ­citizens’ phones. Rule breakers face the gulag.

Examples include “chal-ka” (see you) and “ty” (English abbreviation for thank you). South Korean TV is banned in the North.

A parent told Japanese journalists anyone breaching the phone message rules “will be suspected of watching South Korean dramas and interrogated”.

They added: “Inspectors also check the text messages for any rumours or complaints about difficulties due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“However, students and young people are clever, so they are very careful to delete their text messages as soon as possible after sending them.”

In a leaked top-secret document Jong-un brands South Korea a puppet of the US and names more banned words, such as “oppa” for older brother.

Jong-un wrote: “This is a typical example of the perverted ‘puppet language’ and ‘puppet style’ that is widespread in our society.”

Authorities in the secretive state will inspect ­citizens’ phones

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Authorities in the secretive state will inspect ­citizens’ phonesCredit: Getty
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