Tuesday, July 28, 2009

NK: NO Trousers for Women

From the Times of India:
North Korean women face hard labor if caught wearing trousers rather than skirts, under the communist regime’s latest crackdown on public morals, South Korean activists said on Friday.

Offenders can be punished with hours of forced labor or fines of 700 won, almost a week’s salary for the average worker, human rights group Good Friends said, citing its own sources within the isolated nation.

The Stalinist leadership’s campaign is angering women who see skirts as less practical than trousers, Good Friends director Lee Seung-Yong said.

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