N. Korea discovers the secret of intelligence

[Arawn]

Pyongyang television started the campaign last autumn with a five-part series in its regular TV Common Sense programme.

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.

Good news for Skinheads, and bad news for most women

Elsewhere in the news, N. Korea wages war on greatest threat to national security since American Capitalism

[Arthur Gordon Pym]

Good news for Skinheads, and bad news for most women

North Korea promoting skinheadism. So this would be a new proof of convergence between the far left and the far right, as politically correct neocon commentators would say.

[meadhbh]

That explains a lot. I guess I need to get my hair cut off then.

[svin]

It was long ago discovered by Soviet communists.
They just copy USSR in every aspect.