Kim Jong Un orders officials to smoke domestic cigarettes

Calling foreign cigarettes unpatriotic, North Korean leader and smoker Kim Jong Un ordered senior officials to smoke only domestic cigarettes, reports the International Business Times.

It is unclear whether the directive applies also to counterfeit cigarettes made in North Korea with foreign labels.

Earlier this year, a report by the Washington, DC-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea said that the isolated country manufacturers millions of cartons of cigarettes bearing foreign labels and ships them worldwide to raise hard currency.