Kim Jong-un’s Haircut Is Now Trending in North Korea (Because It's the Law)

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North Korea’s “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong-un’s haircut has been described as looking like a felt-tip pen, a rollerball hoover (his head being the rollerball), and SpongeBob SquarePants since he debuted the look back in February. Like the average American hipster, he’s paying homage to the older generation, modeling the cut after his grandfather, whom he desperately wants to be like since he thinks it will earn him respect and power. Which is, you know, dumb.

Now he’s reportedly making the haircut a mandate for all young men in North Korea, as if the state’s list of ten sanctioned hairstyles, introduced in 2013, wasn’t constricting enough. Back in 2014, when Kim Jong-un had a slightly less extreme undercut, a similar report was released. This recent claim, however, notes that a man’s hair can now be no longer than 2 cm, and that "University student monitors are walking around with scissors and cutting off the hair of offenders." Young women are also required to model their hair after the leader’s wife, Ri Sol-ju. The paper that published the article claims the crackdown is meant to remind students of the state’s intolerance for “capitalist ideology and culture.”

If your high fade is feeling a little eerily North Korean right now, might we suggest one of these haircuts instead?