North Korea’s war on superstition backfires as fortune-telling goes underground

2026-03-04 - 21:23

Despite the North Korean authorities’ intensified crackdown on superstitious practices, the fortune-telling market is spreading in ever more covert forms. Rather than suppressing demand, harsher punishments appear to be pushing the market underground, creating a paradox in which enforcement produces the very outcome it seeks to prevent. A Daily NK source in South Pyongan province said Wednesday... Source