Ever wondered what it would be like to live under a Big Brother-style government? I think North Koreans do:
North Korean state television is showing a series of programmes instructing shabbily coiffured men on the personal grooming required of a citizen of the vehemently anti-capitalist state.
The five-part series, entitled “Let’s trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle”, exhorted them to opt for one of several officially sanctioned haircuts, including the crew cut and the “high, middle and low” styles. Hair should be kept between 1cm and 5cm in length and should be trimmed every 15 days, it said.
Their policies on sex must be scary. I especially loved this quote:
People who wear other’s style of dress and live in other’s style will become fools and that nation will come to ruin.
I mean come on! Had the West entertained this kind of thinking, the 80s would never have happened!
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