The Daily Mail recently reported that North Korean officials are investigating some people's response to a gas explosion. In particular, they are focussed on whether the obligatory portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il were saved.
North Korean officials investigating a series of gas explosions that killed at least nine people are focusing their probe on whether families in Hyesan did everything they could to save portraits of the Kim dictators.
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Earlier this year, a North Korean mother was threatened with jail after saving her two children from a house fire but allowed portraits of North Korea's leaders to burn.
There is no evidence given. I think it was fabricated.
Is there evidence for this?