At DailyNK Choi Song Min reports on Furnaces Ablaze with Kim Literature -- book-burning not, as you might expect, to provide heat but rather:
Some households in North Korea are reportedly incinerating literature and books written by the two former leaders, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, to evade potential punishment for failure to take adequate care of material deemed sacred under state doctrine.The inspectors -- yes, inspectors apparently come around to check up on the state of the Kim-lit in your library -- apparently face a problem now:
"Officials from the Propaganda and Agitation Department who carried out the inspection this time around are at a loss for words because it's not just a few households devoid of any Kim family literature -- it's almost all of them," she said. "Afraid that reporting this to their superiors in the Central Party will reflect poorly on their work and character, opening them up to myriad punishments, they're all staying tight-lipped about what they've seen."(Helpfully, the article also notes: "The content of this article was broadcast to the North Korean people via Unification Media Group" .....)