The ban actually doesn’t seem so crazy after all if you think about it a bit harder. I have read various articles on the internet about the connection of humor and politics, and they suggested that humor has been used throughout history as a powerful weapon against a disfunctional government. And it’s effective because it can drive people’s fear away and bring them closer to the cause you are fighting for. As a result dictators have been reported to dislike humor.
Back to Kim’s ban, I think he is taking things to a new level. He doesn’t want any kind of humor, even the smallest, to enter his people’s mind and obstruct his government. He wants to strip his people off every right possible, even the right to laugh, so that they become mindless sheeps that take everything he say seriously and literally.
You can see he’s up to something…