North Korean Women Not Allowed To Wear the Pants In the Family
Kim Jong Il thinks that women shouldn’t wear the pants in the family, literally:
North Korea’s communist government is urging women in the country to wear traditional Korean clothes instead of pants, according to a North Korean monthly magazine.
”Keeping alive our dress style is a very important political issue to adhere to specific national cultural traditions at a time when the U.S. imperialists are maneuvering to spread the rotten bourgeois lifestyle inside North Korea,” the Joson Yeosung [Woman] magazine said, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
The magazine said exotic dress dampens the revolutionary atmosphere and blurs national sentiment and asked the public to reject clothes that aren’t North Korean style. Instead, it counsels women to wear Hanbok — the brightly colored, loose-fitting dresses that are traditional in the Koreas.
Maybe Kim Jong Il will not start demanding free hanboks from South Korea as well now.
