Fact or Fiction?

engineergurl · Mar 27, 2014

Male college students in North Korea have been ordered to sport the same distinctive hairstyle as the country’s young leader Kim Jong Un, Radio Free Asiareported on Thursday.

The order, issued in early March, was based on a recommendation by the ruling Workers’ Party that students adopt Mr. Kim’s trademark look — short on the sides, longer on top and parted in the middle — the report said.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/north-korean-students-told-to-copy-kim-jong-uns-hairstyle/article5839262.ece#comments

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TOKYO (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's distinctive hairstyle is the 'do of the day on the Internet, thanks to a viral report that every male university student in the capital is now under orders to get a buzz just like it. But it appears the barbers of Pyongyang aren't exactly sharpening their scissors.

Recent visitors to the country say they've seen no evidence of any mass haircutting. North Korea watchers smell another imaginative but uncorroborated rumor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/27/mandatory-kim-jong-un-hai_0_n_5041289.html