North Korea’s fortune-telling crackdown backfires

North Korea’s fortune-telling crackdown backfires

Despite the North Korean authorities’ intensified crackdown on superstitious practices, the fortune-telling market is spreading in ever more covert forms. Rather than suppressing demand, harsher punishments appear to be pushing the market underground, creating a paradox in which enforcement produces the very outcome it seeks to prevent. A Daily NK source in South Pyongan province said Wednesday… Source

North Korea’s war on superstition backfires as fortune-telling goes underground - The Press United

Despite the North Korean authorities’ intensified crackdown on superstitious practices, the fortune-telling market is spreading in ever more covert forms. Rather than suppressing demand, harsher punishments appear to be pushing the market underground, creating a paradox in which enforcement produces the very outcome it seeks to prevent. A Daily NK source in South Pyongan province […]