North Korea is cracking down on women for smoking in public, saying they are promoting capitalist culture and extinguishing socialist morals, but residents say authorities are enforcing the laws on women but not on men. Tradition holds that it is natural for men to smoke, but frowned on for women to do so in North Korea, whose supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, is a chain smoker often seen in state media holding a lit cigarette.
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