N/Korea President Tells Citizens To Use Pet Dogs As Food.

North Korea President, Kim Jong Un, has advised citizens of his country to give up their pet dogs as meals in restaurants amid the shortage of food in the country.

In North Korea it is usually the wealthy, mostly in the capital Pyongyang, who own domesticated pets including dogs, which are seen by authorities as a symbol of capitalist ‘decadence’.

According to reports, Kim, in July, banned ownership of pet dogs, denouncing having a dog at home as “a tainted trend of bourgeois ideology,”

“Authorities have identified households with pet dogs and are forcing them to give them up or forcefully confiscating them and putting them down,” the source said.

According to reports, 60 % of North Korea’s 25.5 million people are facing ‘widespread food shortages’ that have become worse by international sanctions imposed on the regime for its nuclear missile programmes.