now north koreans aren't allowed to say 'i love you' to each other in letters

Kim Jong-un fears any Western culture entering North Korea (Picture: AP)

In North Korea,even Cupid is under surveillance.

Kim Jong-un – who previously waged war on hot dogs and jeans – has now decided that love letters are a national security threat.

Officials from a factory’s Socialist Patriotic Youth League in Hamhŭng,the second-most populous city,found a love letter during a routine inspection.

It contained romantic expressions like ‘I love you’ and ‘The only thing I think of is you.’

The incident happened earlier this month and it has since been turned into an ideological issue.

A source told Daily NK: ‘They [officials] criticized the phrase “I love you” in the letter,and made a big deal of the matter.’

The letter was blasted as evidence of a ‘decadent lifestyle imbued with the capitalist views of love.’

The young man who wrote it was condemned for his ‘rotten spirit’ and then forced to publicly criticize himself in front of fellow members of the party.

The source added: ‘Lovers often say “I like you,” but use “I love you” less so.

‘All he did was write down the feelings he could not express out loud,but officials turned it into a major issue.

‘Other league members watched the struggle session with disgust,like they were chewing rotten cucumbers.’

Crackdowns on outside information and culture have intensified in recent years,with North Korean authorities fearing that it poses a threat to the status quo,particularly to the young generation.

This only intensified since the outbreak of Covid-19 when North Korean authorities shut down the border with China.

Everything that Kim Jong-un has banned in recent years