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Article: North Korea Declares War on Long Hair
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- February 1, 2005
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SANG-HUN CHOE, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
02-01-2005
Dateline: SEOUL, South Korea
The order to shaggy-haired North Korean men couldn't be clearer: Get a trim like Kim.
The reclusive communist country is waging a hair war, telling its male population to lose the long locks, cut the coiffures and mow the mane to conform to "socialist style" _ no longer than two inches.
Even hair-challenged, authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il has trimmed his famous pompadour. One exception, however: Comradely comb-overs are OK for older men.
The short-hair campaign actually was launched in October, but it reached new lengths Monday when state-run Central TV began ridiculing nonconformists as unhygienic, ...