{"id":39940,"date":"2021-12-20T08:53:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T23:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/dec\/20\/north-korea-bans-laughing-for-11-days-during-mourning-for-anniversary-of-kim-jong-ils-death-video"},"modified":"2021-12-20T08:53:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T23:53:30","slug":"north-korea-bans-laughing-for-11-days-during-mourning-for-anniversary-of-kim-jong-ils-death-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39940","title":{"rendered":"North Korea bans laughing for 11 days during mourning for anniversary of Kim Jong-il&#8217;s death \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video from Pyongyang shows&nbsp;North&nbsp;Korea&#8217;s leader Kim Jong-un looking very dour as he attends the memorial service to mark the 10th anniversary of his father&#8217;s death. As part of the national memorial, North&nbsp;Koreans have been banned from showing any sign of happiness. The restrictions include an explicit ban on laughter and alcohol during the 11-day period of mourning. On the exact anniversary of Kim Jong-il\u2019s death, 17 December,&nbsp;North&nbsp;Koreans were even banned from going grocery shopping<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/17\/from-tempestuous-child-to-little-rocket-man-10-years-of-kim-jong-un\">From \u2018tempestuous\u2019 child to little rocket man: 10 years of Kim Jong-un<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/dec\/17\/how-has-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-held-on-to-power-so-long-video\">How has North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong-un held on to power so long? \u2013 video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/dec\/20\/north-korea-bans-laughing-for-11-days-during-mourning-for-anniversary-of-kim-jong-ils-death-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video from Pyongyang shows&nbsp;North&nbsp;Korea&#8217;s leader Kim Jong-un looking very dour as he attends the memorial service to mark the 10th anniversary of his father&#8217;s death. As part of the national memorial, North&nbsp;Koreans have been banned from sh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1918,421,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-il","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39983,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39940\/revisions\/39983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}