North Korea: With already an amount of restrictions, now North Korea Kim Jong-un is reportedly ordering men to cut their hair just like himself and the ladies have to keep a bobbed cut similar to his wife. If anyone tried to disobey the order, they will have to face the officials’ “tonsorial diktat”.
According to the sources, the officials in North Korea issued an order asking men to keep their hair no longer than 2cm. “University student monitors are walking around with scissors and cutting off the hair of offenders,” the source told Chosun Ilbo. The barber shops in North Korea are lined up because people do not want to face the wrath of the authorities.
In North Korea, his much-talked-about hairstyle is called ‘ambitious’ as it looks bold with sides above ears and back of the head completely shaven and only top left. His wife Ri Sol-ju’s bob cut must be followed by young girls and cut their hair short in case they have longer tresses.
However, performers are an exception.
“The crackdown on long hair seems aimed at getting young people in shape for the seventh general assembly of the Workers Party,” a think-tank researcher quoted as saying.
