an excerpt:

N Korea wages war on long hair
Men's hairstyles reflect their 'ideological spirit' North Korea has launched an intensive media assault on its latest arch enemy - the wrong haircut .It is the strongest media campaign against men's sloppy appearances mounted in the reclusive and impoverished Communist state in recent years. The propaganda drive on grooming standards has gone a stage further than previous attempts. This time television identifies specific individuals deemed too shoddy.
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. Men should get a haircut every 15 days, it recommended.

absolutely ridiculous! those vain guys in spore who spend an hour in front of the mirror pouring tons of hairswax on your lovely beautiful hair everymorning, you better love your hair now! you'll never know when singapore thinks these "1-5cm for back and sides and 5cm for tops of heads" will become hip here. you just might be next. (: soon, we'll be seeing north korean man like this:

maybe it's time to start opening barber shops in north korea.