Nork hair police

Independent:

A campaign in communist North Korea against untidy and foreign hairstyles was launched on the orders of leader Kim Jong-Il, a South Korean welfare group says.

Official media in the isolated state said last month that men should keep their hair short and women should have it tied up.

"To keep your hair tidy and simple... is a very important matter for setting the ethos of a sound lifestyle in the country," ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said at the time.

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It quoted officials of the body as saying Kim took objection to what he saw as the foreign hairstyle of a female sales clerk.

"Is she really our own Korean woman? Why is she giving up our own traditional beauty and choosing to model bad foreign habits of the capitalist?" they quoted Kim as saying.

The leader also ordered that women should not wear skirts above the knee, tight trousers, flared trousers or any garment that reveals the body's contours, according to the newsletter.

Youth union officials in Pyongyang and other cities are now cracking down on the hairstyles of students and young women, it said.

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Such is life under a control freak government. The everyday loss of freedoms is pervasive and draconian. A command economy is not content to only command commerce, but every aspect of one's life. What is Kim's postion on the grooming of pubic hair? Is their a style he prefers?