He’s the boob for the job. Kim Jong Un ordered emergency crackdown on ‘anti-socialist’ breast augmentation surgeries
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered an emergency crackdown on breast augmentation surgeries, labeling them “anti-socialist,” according to reports.
The Ministry of Public Safety in Pyongyang City issued the emergency directive against what it called “rotten capitalist” implants. Those caught could face severe punishment in the country’s labor camps, UK outlet Metro reported. Over the summer, “strike teams” were reportedly deployed to central areas, including Pyongyang, where plainclothes agents monitored for black-market doctors and women with cosmetic enhancements, according to Daily NK, citing anonymous sources inside North Korea.
Women suspected of having undergone surgery could be subjected to physical examinations by government health officials. “Women or private doctors caught could face criminal punishment, including labor camps, on charges of anti-socialism,” the source told the outlet.
The surge in demand for breast implants, eyelid surgeries, and eyebrow tattoos is blamed by the North Korean government on young women in their 20s and 30s absorbing “bourgeois ideology.” In mid-September, a private doctor and two women in their 20s who had cosmetic surgery were publicly tried. They stood with heads bowed for hours as prosecutors condemned their actions, Metro reported.
“Women living in a socialist system have been corrupted by bourgeois customs and have committed rotten capitalist acts,” an unidentified prosecutor said. Officials reportedly conducted physical examinations of the women as part of the trial process.
Seized items presented at the trial included smuggled silicone, medical tools, and bundles of cash, all confiscated by the North Hwanghae Province Security Bureau. This is not the first instance of North Koreans encountering the influence of what the government labels “bourgeois” culture.
Earlier, a Financial Times report described how North Korean soldiers sent to fight in Russia were exposed to pornography upon their first experience with unrestricted internet access, highlighting the country’s struggle to control outside cultural influences.
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