Entertainment, Partying Banned in North Korea

Entertainment, Partying Banned in North Korea
North Korean students illuminated by a public television screen walk past the central station in Pyongyang on Nov. 16, 2017. Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
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If life in North Korea wasn’t hard enough already, get-togethers involving drinking, singing or other forms of entertainment have been banned, according to South Korea’s spy agency.

The North Korean regime has been strengthening measures to control the isolated nation’s general population in response to stiffening sanctions, said the National Intelligence Service (NIS) during a parliamentary briefing in Seoul on Nov. 20, reported South Korean news agency Yonhap.