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BRILLIANT! "North Korea campaigns against long hair, untidy attire"
Sun Jan 9, 1:39 PM ET
SEOUL (AFP) - Stalinist North Korea (news - web sites) has stepped up its campaign against long hair and untidy attire which its media says represents
a "corrupt capitalist" lifestyle, reports said.
?North Korean state television, radio and newspapers have led the grooming drive, urging people to cut their hair short and to dress tidily, the BBC
said in a dispatch citing broadcasts from Pyongyang.
Men were asked to have crew cuts with hair growing up to five centimeters (two inches) in a twice-a-month visit to the barber, it said.
Not only health and hygiene but also intelligence was cited by the North Korean media as reasons for the crackdown on appearance.
Pyongyang television noted long hair "consumes a great deal of nutrition" and could thus rob the brain of energy, according to the BBC.
But another serious reason came from state radio which said tidy attire "is important in repelling the enemies' maneuvers to infiltrate corrupt
capitalist ideas and lifestyle" in North Korea, it said.
The ruling communist party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, even warned inappropriate appearance under foreign influence could lead to national decay.
"People who wear other's style of dress and live in other's style will become fools and that nation will come to ruin," Rodong was cited as saying.
Some North Korean TV broadcasts adopted a hidden-camera style video of longhaired men on various locations throughout Pyongyang in an unprecedented
break with their usual approach.
The program showed those who were not "in accordance with Socialist lifestyle" just run away or make excuses of being too busy to trim their hair.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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brooklyn
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as Bush would say: another proof they are aprt of the axis of evil
T.C.O.B.
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moron
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Sounds like something that could have been written in the 1800s in the US especially the part about long hair consuming a great deal of nutrition.
Yeah... and masturbation makes you blind.
I wonder how much of this these people believe and how much they just go along with because they dont want to be imprisoned.
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JUICE MAYNE MSHC
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"...and I'm PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN where at least I know I'm free!" HAHAHAH. Lee Greenwood said it best.
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RomanticViolence
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Dude.. thats fucking ridiculas. I have long hair (Reaches down to my ass) and i have no problem with heath. Maybe they think it different with chics
though 
Have you ever noticed how crayons are a lot like M&M's? All the colors tend to taste the same.
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