NORTH Koreans could be sent to labour camps for flouting a tyrannical ban on slang or textspeak.
Authorities in the secretive state will inspect citizens’ phones. Rule breakers face the gulag.
Examples include “chal-ka” (see you) and “ty” (English abbreviation for thank you). South Korean TV is banned in the North. A parent told Japanese journalists anyone breaching the phone message rules “will be suspected of watching South Korean dramas and interrogated”.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13672819/north-korea-textspeak-slang-ban/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/north-koreans-using-text-slang-23269528

Authorities in the secretive state will inspect citizens’ phones. Rule breakers face the gulag.
Examples include “chal-ka” (see you) and “ty” (English abbreviation for thank you). South Korean TV is banned in the North. A parent told Japanese journalists anyone breaching the phone message rules “will be suspected of watching South Korean dramas and interrogated”.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13672819/north-korea-textspeak-slang-ban/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/north-koreans-using-text-slang-23269528

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