From BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific:
“N Korea wages war on long hair North Korean Television campaign on hair Men’s hairstyles reflect their ‘ideological spirit’

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

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.

Men should get a haircut every 15 days, it recommended."