North Korean-themed restaurant in Seoul removes Kim images

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SEOUL (AP) - You can sell North Korean food in South Korea. But you're likely to get into trouble if you decorate your restaurant with pictures seen as praising North Korea.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SEOUL - You can sell North Korean food in South Korea. But you're likely to get into trouble if you decorate your restaurant with pictures seen as praising North Korea.

Police quoted the owner as saying the North Korea-themed decorations were intended to attract attention and make the restaurant more profitable. Full enforcement of the National Security Law has been rare in recent years as relations with North Korea have improved greatly since the Cold War era. In the past, South Korean dictators often used the security law to imprison and torture dissidents until the country achieved democracy in the late 1980s.

Despite the removal of the images, the restaurant's exterior still has socialist-style propaganda paintings with parodies of North Korean slogans such as"More booze to comrades" or"Let's bring about a great revolution in the development of side dishes." It wasn't immediately clear whether the owner would remove those decorations as well.

 

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