{"id":28337,"date":"2013-08-07T22:21:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=28337"},"modified":"2013-08-07T22:21:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:21:02","slug":"north-korean-comedian-sent-to-do-hard-labour-in-a-coal-mine-after-making-a-slip-of-tongue-about-regime-during-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=28337","title":{"rendered":"North Korean comedian sent to do hard labour in a coal mine after making a &#8216;slip of tongue&#8217; about regime during performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kim-Jong-Un1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28338\" alt=\"Kim Jong Un\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kim-Jong-Un1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kim-Jong-Un1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kim-Jong-Un1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kim-Jong-Un1-415x300.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>North Korean comedian sent to do hard labour in a coal mine after making a &#8216;slip of tongue&#8217; about regime during performance A North Korean comedian was sent to do hard labour in a coal mine midway through her performance after she made a \u2018slip of the tongue\u2019 about the country&#8217;s draconian regime. Lee Choon Hong, a popular comedian known for satirising and mimicking people in North Korean society, was performing for workers on a vast farm project ordered by leader Kim Jong Un when she commented on &#8216;sensitive issues&#8217;, it was reported. The comedian was immediately taken off and sent to the Jikdong Youth Coal Mine, without even having a chance to say goodbye to her family, according to local reports in the notoriously secret country. It is not known how long Lee will be held for, but a typical punishment is likely to involve a six-month evaluation period during which she would be observed at work in the mine before a decision to release her was made. What the comedian said has not been reported, but it is said to be the second time she has upset authorities in North Korea &#8211; she was reportedly sent to do reform work in the mid-2000s after &#8216;misspeaking&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean comedian sent to do hard labour in a coal mine after making a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,137],"tags":[2007],"class_list":["post-28337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-north-korean-comedian-sent-to-do-hard-labour-in-a-coal-mine-after-making-a-slip-of-tongue-about-regime-during-performance","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}