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‘Alcohol And Singing’ Ban Is North Korea’s Latest Attack On Christmas

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David Krayden Ottawa Bureau Chief
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North Korea officially banned Christmas in 2016, but the repressive Communist regime keeps finding new ways to dampen the Christmas spirit.

As AOL reports, the  Kim Jong Un’s recent edict to ban any “gatherings that involve alcohol and singing” will certainly affect any residual holiday merrymaking.

The news of North Korea’s latest assault on fun came courtesy of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service. The regime justified the move saying participants may transmit or receive forbidden messages of political opposition while they indulge in unrestrained Christmas caroling.

Kim is apparently worried that economic sanctions aimed at North Korea are driving more of the population into open rebellion. By any estimate, those sanctions are taking an increasingly painful toll on a country that is already short of everything except government propaganda.

The North Korean dictator actually banned Christmas last year. Kim urged citizens to honor the memory of Kim’s grandmother — who just happened to be born on Dec. 24, 1919.

Despite North Korea’s reluctance to wish anyone a Merry Christmas, South Korea has coyly done its best to export the season to its totalitarian neighbor in the past, by putting up a 30-foot-high lighted tree on the DMZ.

North Korea was not amused, suggesting this rash act of provocation would bring “unexpected consequences.”

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