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https://www.dailynk.com/english/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/10/DNKF00008335_List.jpg12095The kind of gallows humor that satirizes the state of North Korean society is as popular in North Korea as it ever was in other socialist states. For example, sarcastic terms to describe the useless role of a husband. As a source from North Hamkyung Province told The Daily NK on the 26th, “Husbands have […]