The North Korean leader of Kim Jong-un has reportedly banned Christmas celebrations, and has ordered citizens to worship his grandmother Kim Jong-Suk instead of Jesus Christ on Christmas day, according to the India Times news released on Monday.

The supreme leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has additionally banned people from erecting Christmas trees in the country.

The North Korean leader's grandmother, Kim Jong-Suk, was born on Christmas Eve in 1919. She was an anti-Japanese guerrilla and Communist activist, and wife of North Korea's first dictator, Kim Il-sung.

His grandmother, who is also known in the country as "Sacred Mother of the Revolution", died mysteriously in 1949 at the age of 29.

The last religious ban came in the country after Kim Jong Un banned the use of Christmas trees on Christmas day in the year 2014.

North Korea is an atheist state with no official religion. According to the North Korean officials, Christians make up 1.7 percent of the population of the country while 64.3 percent are irreligious adherents of the Juche ideas, 16 percent practice Korean shamanism, 13.5 percent practice Chondoism and 4.5 percent are Buddhist.