If you get a divorce in North Korea, you and your spouse will be sent to a labor camp for one to six months to atone for your “crimes,” residents in the country told Radio Free Asia.

Divorce is considered an anti-socialist act, and is generally frowned upon in Korea.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    22 days ago

    “Divorce is considered an anti-socialist act”

    I don’t even understand what this means.

    I feel like it’s like saying “eating pineapple pizza is generally an anti-banking act.”

    …what?

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      22 days ago

      I think the logic is that a low birth rate is bad for the state. To harm the state makes one an anti-socialist.

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      22 days ago

      I’m a firm-believer that if people do not want to understand something, then they won’t.

      It doesn’t take much thought to realize they’re referring to the unity of the nation. Divorces cause problems. They show not everything is hunky-dory. The regime doesn’t want that.