The BBC reports on North Korea's TV campaign to smarten up the appearance of its citizens. The show is snappily titled "Let us Trim our Hair in Accordance with Socialist Lifestyle".



During the racy show individuals are stopped in the street, named and shamed, and castigated for not keeping their hair in accordance with the "socialist lifestyle of the military-first era". The BBC reports:-

Stressing hygiene and health, it showed various state-approved short hairstyles including the "flat-top crew cut," "middle hairstyle," "low hairstyle," and "high hairstyle" - variations from one to five centimetres in length.

The programme allowed men aged over 50 seven centimetres of upper hair to cover balding.

It stressed the "negative effects" of long hair on "human intelligence development", noting that long hair "consumes a great deal of nutrition" and could thus rob the brain of energy.