] North Korea has launched an intensive media assault on
] its latest arch enemy - the wrong haircut.

] A campaign exhorting men to get a proper
] short-back-and-sides has been aired by state-run
] Pyongyang television.

] The series is entitled Let us trim our hair in accordance
] with Socialist lifestyle.

] 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.

] A second, and unprecedented, TV series this winter showed
] hidden-camera style video of "long-haired" men in various
] locations throughout Pyongyang.

] In a break with North Korean TV's usual approach, the
] programme gave their names and addresses, and challenged
] the fashion victims directly over their appearance.

] State radio programmes such as "Dressing in accordance
] with our people's emotion and taste" link clothes and
] appearance with the wearer's "ideological and mental
] state".

] Tidy attire "is important in repelling the enemies'
] manoeuvres to infiltrate corrupt capitalist ideas and
] lifestyle and establishing the socialist lifestyle of the
] military-first era," the radio says.

] "People who wear other's style of dress and live in
] other's style will become fools and that nation will come
] to ruin," it says.

Aparently many of those among us are killing their brain's ability with excessive amounts of hair. We will not even start on the "style of dress"