This is true. My grandpa was a foreigner living in North Korea. He was arrested for having an afro. The crime? He was apparently "too fly for a white guy" under socialism.

Dogs are not pets they are comrades in struggle

There are also reportedly no adverts between TV shows.

Wait is this supposed to be a bad thing?

the puppet military dictatorship installed in South Korea by the USA actually did police haircuts

Failure to display sufficient reverence for the country's leadership is considered a grave offence, punishable by fines, imprisonment, or even execution.

As such, all households are required to hang portraits of Kim incumbent, as well as former leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung and ensure they are spotless.

My expectations are always low, but lol come on, this is Yeonmi Park shit. Three portraits hung in every home with no dust! Otherwise, summary execution!

Anyway, most of this is the classic cycling of old stories to make them look better-substantiated when every reference to X story comes from a given RFA report from an "anonymous informant".

The DailyMail article claims a number of myths about DPRK including that blue jeans are censored/banned, citizens are required to have government approved haircuts, women aren't allowed to wear shorts, dogs banned as pets. The article cites Radio Free Asia and DailyNK, both US government funded. Exactly what you would expect, US funded misinformation.

Since people are commenting on dogs, I found this article from KCNA, news website hosted by DPRK. This article was published October 27, 2023. The national dog breed of DPRK is Phungsan. The article says that it is common for people to raise Phungsan dogs at workplaces, villages, and houses.

Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The interest in Phungsan dog is growing among the Korean people, and the number of people raising Phungsan dogs is increasing in different parts of the DPRK, to say nothing of the place of origin.

Sariwon City, North Hwanghae Province, in particular, is a well-known place in the country as the Phungsan dog show is held there every year. It is a common practice in Sariwon City to raise Phungsan dogs at workplaces, villages and houses.

The show is now under way in the city amid the interest of many fans and experts. This year's show is the tenth of its kind since the first show was held in 2014.

The Phungsan dog is loved by the Korean people as one of the national symbols reflecting the excellent character of the Korean nation, thanks to the noble patriotic intention of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The purebred Phungsan dog has been widely spread in Sariwon City and other parts of North Hwanghae Province with the show as an occasion.

According to examiners of the Phungsan dog show who are making tour of various places for the examination, the number of Phungsan dogs participating in the show is on the increase every year.

The dog, highly appreciated at the show, is used to propagate its species drawing the attention of many fans and experts.

Meanwhile, Sariwon Kye Ung Sang University of Agriculture is conducting a brisk research for preserving and propagating the purebred Phungsan dog

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/59ff167348aa7bab60621a1741c8f65dd04690624a66d9e700a256eba886aebe.kcmsf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pungsan_dog

North Korea is officially dog free

This is really just the requirement for women at Japanese companies. Stockings, heels, and certain hair style.

The only haircut allowed in North Korea is the exact haircut that Hillary Clinton has.

Meanwhile see what happens when you live in a red state with long hair as a guy. Also fairly certain a lot of religious schools do have haircut requirements.

Lol, I remember when they invented this story years ago. The origin was literally a guy on Twitter seeing a picture from North Korea of one of those boards with different hairstyles at the barber that you can reference and just assuming that those were the only hairstyles that the government allowed.

That somehow generated multiple years of insane made up stories around hairstyles in North Korea, like there were stories claiming it was either forbidden or mandatory for men to get Kim Jong Un's signature cut, sometimes appearing in the same publication weeks apart.

For whatever reason they keep printing stories about North Korean haircuts, possibly becuase they are frivolous enough that they don't get any serious pushback despite how obviously absurd they are. Unlike other all-timer fake North Korea stories like nuclear testing creating zombies or their whole soccer team getting executed because they lost the World Cup.

We gotta send boy boy there again to see if its true this time

Yesterday I read a story about Korean TV airing a British gardening show and blurring out the jeans the host was wearing. Allegedly the Korean government thinks jeans are imperialist.

The article I read went beyond the BBC story they got the story from and interviewed a western "expert" on Korea. She claimed that there is a death penalty in Korea for consuming unauthorized foreign media.

Sometimes I think the koreans are having a laugh trolling gullible westerners who are racist enough to believe everything.

Of course you are free to wear any hair cut you like here, you just may not be able to work, especially if your haircut is "ethnic"

Do you think it's embaressing to pretend to be so stupid you don't understand trends.

Was China writing articles about how Biden outlawed anything but the broccoli cut or about how Clinton mandated The Rachel or are we uniquely stupid?

The thing about debunking disinfo, people only have to wait somewhere between 2 weeks and 6 months and they'll pretend to forget it and start regurgitating it again. If you point out the past debunking to them they'll just call you a conspiracy theorist.

There's almost no point to debunking this shit for 90% of people who fall for it in the first place, they willfully believe it, because they want to, it makes them feel special.

but what does Dennis Rodman say about it? Does he also have to get the same haircut each time he goes?