North Korea: Men required to get Kim Jong-un haircuts

[Jazzy]

Men in North Korea are now required to get the same haircut as their leader Kim Jong-un, it is reported.

The state-sanctioned guidelines were introduced in the capital Pyongyang about two weeks ago, media reports say. They are now being rolled out across the country - although some people have reservations about getting the look.

"Our leader's haircut is very particular, if you will," one source tells Radio Free Asia. "It doesn't always go with everyone since everyone has different face and head shapes." Meanwhile, a North Korean now living in China says the look is actually unpopular at home because people think it resembles Chinese smugglers. "Until the mid-2000s, we called it the 'Chinese smuggler haircut'," the Korea Times reports.

It seems that haircuts have been state-approved in North Korea for some time - until now people were only allowed to choose from 18 styles for women and 10 for men. Earlier, North Korea's state TV launched a campaign against long hair, called "Let us trim our hair in accordance with the Socialist lifestyle".

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What do you think of his haircut?

 

[Capricorn]

it's like pooding over head. :/

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Lol. Whats the point of that?

 

[Evil Eye]

Lol. Whats the point of that?

Finding body doubles more easily

 

[DrLeftover]

"Our leader's haircut is very particular..."

Do you think Our Dear Leader is taking notes?

 

[Evil Eye]

Not him, personally, I'm sure.

 

[DrLeftover]

Story may be fake

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But perhaps exactly because of the reclusive nature of the regime, stories like the one carried by the Korea Times on Wednesday are hard to verify, leading some critics to question the entire thing.

In his blog, Slate's Joshua Keating picked apart the report, highlighting some suspect points. First, he said, the recent visitors to Pyongyang who are quoted in the report "don't recall seeing people with unusual haircuts."

He then went on to lay out past and equally as dubious hair-related stories that emerged from North Korea – a 2008 Japanese report alledging Kim banned long hair after watching a soccer match, and a 2013 Telegraph article claiming Pyongyang had sanctioned 28 approved hair styles, 14 for men and 14 for women.

"In other words," concluded Keating, "it’s true that the North Korean state discourages long hair… But enforcement of these rules seems to be pretty lax and it seems extremely unlikely that every man in the country is now walking around with an imitation of Kim Jong-un’s Macklemore-ish side-shaved do."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/1.582231