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Article: N. Koreans told to cut their hair
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- February 2, 2005
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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 2 inches.
Even hair-challenged, authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il has trimmed
his famous pompadour. One exception, however: Comradely combovers 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, anti-socialist fools. It comes as North