In North Korea, even Cupid is under surveillance.

Kim Jong-un – who previously waged war on hot dogs and jeans – has now decided that love letters are a national security threat.

Officials from a factory’s Socialist Patriotic Youth League in Hamhŭng, the second-most populous city, found a love letter during a routine inspection.

It contained romantic expressions like ‘I love you’ and ‘The only thing I think of is you.’

The incident happened earlier this month and it has since been turned into an ideological issue.

A source told Daily NK: ‘They [officials] criticized the phrase “I love you” in the letter, and made a big deal of the matter.’

The letter was blasted as evidence of a ‘decadent lifestyle imbued with the capitalist views of love.’

The young man who wrote it was condemned f

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