"Youth Group Drugs and Sex Relationships" in the bathhouse...北, I got the knife out.

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North Korean authorities have started to eradicate disorderly activities at convenience volunteer facilities such as beauty salons and bathhouses in North Korea.

The Daily NK reported on the 10th, citing a source in North Hamgyong Province, "The Cabinet's General Service Bureau ordered the death of convenience bars nationwide on the 10th of last month to eliminate the disorder of convenience service facilities such as sorry (skin beauty), hair salons, massage, and bathhouses."

The instruction said, "Despite being instructed to eradicate social order disorder behavior, if these things are discovered in the future, they will be sentenced to six months of labor training or deported to rural areas if the matter is severe."

The North Korean authorities took out the knife after obscene and decadent acts such as prostitution were secretly carried out at businesses that provide services such as skin care, haircuts, massage, and bathing.

Recently, in North Korea, there is an increasing number of cases of permitting individual businesses of residents for the purpose of collecting taxes. As a result, North Koreans also prefer private-run facilities to state-run convenience service facilities for reasons such as the quality of facilities and services, and promiscuous activities are often taking place in them.

Daily NK said, "It is customary for people with money to receive a massage when they go to the bathhouse, and there is also an atmosphere that takes it for granted to massage and even prostitution."

"It will be difficult to prevent obscene acts at convenience service facilities no matter how much the state warns, because individuals do this even though they know it is illegal," he said. "Even if they are caught in a crackdown, they can avoid legal punishment with bribes, so this act will not end."

Earlier in June, three boys and three girls from a high-end middle school in Hamheung City had sexual intercourse in a public bath, causing North Korean authorities to panic.

At that time, the students reportedly paid the bath manager an additional 60 people's use fee in addition to the use fee, and rented the entire bath for two hours.

These students were found to have taken drugs and had group sex inside. Rumors spread as one of the students proudly told an acquaintance, and the case was publicized when a report was made to the Hamheung-si Ministry of Security.

Reporter Lee Yu Na from Digital News Team.