North Korea: Out of the Car, Longhair!

ZZ Portal: How is this for an oppressive society? North Korea's state government has launched a full scale assault on what they consider excessive "long hair" on men. The Communist government is setting hair length standards for males.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | N Korea wages war on long hair: "North Korea has launched an intensive media assault on its latest arch enemy - the wrong haircut.

A campaign exhorting men to get a proper short-back-and-sides has been aired by state-run Pyongyang television.

The series is entitled Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle.

While the campaign has been carried out primarily on television, reports have appeared in North Korean press and radio, urging tidy hairstyles and proper attire." More...

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  • 1 - RJ

    Jan 09, 2005 at 2:07 am

    The NK gov't is utterly insane. I mean, completely fucking bonkers.

    Oh, and they have nukes.

    Welcome to the 21st Century!

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