Falling asleep during a meeting with Kim Jong-un is considered disloyalty to the leader and may also lead to the death penalty. According to reports, in 2015, North Korea's Defence Minister Hyon Yong-chol was gunned down by an anti-aircraft fire in front of 100 people for behaviuor such as falling asleep in Kim Jong-un’s presence. In the 2014 version of the North Korean calendar, "Generalissimo Day" (대원수추대일) briefly became a holiday that honors when Kim Jong Il posthumously received the title " Generalissimo of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" in 2012. [16]

If anyone commits a crime in North Korea, not only he or she will be punished, but also their grandparents, parents and children. This terrible law was created to prevent people from escaping from prison.The Juche calendar, named after the Juche ideology, is the system of year-numbering used in North Korea. It begins with the birth of Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea. His birth year, 1912 in the Gregorian calendar, is " Juche 1" in the Juche calendar. The calendar was adopted in 1997, three years after the death of Kim Il Sung. The calendar, published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House and recently obtained by Daily NK, published photos of gifts received by Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il or Kim Jong Un for every month of the year. The calendar began to be implemented on 9 September 1997, the Day of the Foundation of the Republic. [2] On that date, newspapers, news agencies, radio stations, public transport, and birth certificates began to use Juche years. [4] Usage [ edit ] a b c Lee Sang Yong (16 December 2014). "North Korea's Official 2015 Calendar Revealed". Daily NK . Retrieved 13 January 2017. a b Kang Mi Jin (13 January 2017). "Official 2017 Calendar Seen as out of Touch" . Retrieved 14 January 2017.

The initial months of the calendar appears focused on gifts received from heads of state or other high-ranking leaders of countries that have maintained friendly ties with North Korea since the Kim Il Sung era. Kim with senior officials from the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee and Provincial Party Committees, in an undated photo released on June 8, 2021. Officially a public holiday since 2015 but celebrated unofficially before, this holiday marks Kim Jong Il's 1964 graduation from Kim Il Sung University and start of work in the party organization. [17] Article 28 states that any one member of the five-man Presidium of the Politburo, the WPK's highest body, may preside over a meeting if given consent by the general secretary, who is Kim Jong Un. This essentially means Kim no longer has to oversee or even attend Presidium meetings. North Korea has a different calendar called the Juche calendar than the rest of the world. It begins with April 15, 1912 the birth date of their dear revolutionary leader Kim Il Sung.This year the gift was limited to honored veterans, leaving most ordinary residents to spend the whole year without a calendar.”