North Korean leader bans Christmas holidays
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- 27 December, 2016
- 12:28
Baku. 27 December. REPORT.AZ/ North Korean leader Kim Jong-un banned Christmas and New Year celebrations.
Report informs, referring to Anadolu, Kim Jong-un stressing that his father’s mother was born in Christmas day and added: “Instead of worshipping Jesus, go and commemorate my grandma”.
Notably, his grandmother Kim Jong-suk is considered as “the Sacred Mother of the Revolution”. Communist activist Kim Jong-suk has Japanese roots.
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