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North Koreans face execution for using South Korean idioms

North Koreans who use the “obsequious” accent and expressions of South Korea face execution under a harsh new law aimed at eliminating South Korea’s’s growing influence on the language used by its communist neighbour.

In May the authorities began to enforce the Pyongyang Cultural Language Protection Act, which aims to “purify” the Korean dialect.

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