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KCNA via Reuters
Kim Jong-un, center, son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (not pictured) visits Mokran Video Company in Pyongyang in this official KCNA news agency photo
showing the heir apparent's slicked-back, high-sided haircut, which is a fashion hit in Pyongyang.
North Korean heir-apparent Kim Jong-un's slicked-back, high-sided haircut is a fashion hit in Pyongyang where young men are apparently queueing up for a similar cut.
Kim, believed to be in his late 20s and known as the "Young General," is packaged to look like his late grandfather, the secretive state's founder, Kim Il-sung.
The chubby youngest son of the current leader, Kim Jong-il, slicks his hair back at the top, and has it trimmed to the scalp to about an inch above the ears.
Completing the Kim Il-sung look, which experts say is designed to help win over the public's support for dynastic succession, the young Kim wears dark Mao-style suits.
The young Kim's haircut is dubbed a "youth" or "ambition" hairstyle in North Korea, South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper has reported.
Earlier this week, North Korean state news agency KCNA quoted barber An Su-gil as saying the short-cut, medium-cut and square-cut hairstyles are now popular among young men.
North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun wrote in September that neat and short hair for young people makes them "captivating."
"A young man with (an) ambitious high sided haircut looks so sobering and stylish," the paper added.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency said that North Korean young men prefer short hairstyle for sanitary reasons, not just because they want to look neat and ambitious.
Kim Jong-un emerged as the reclusive North's leader-in-waiting last year when he was named a four-star general and given a prominent post within the ruling party.
This year he has regularly been photographed alongside his father during visits by foreign officials.
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So, he's a fashionable despot.
nittyahoo is also a despot but not fashionable.
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It looks like the same haircut Dillanger wore in th 1920.
Seriously, a haircut is noteworthy. Sounds like a really cool place to live. Nothing to do, all day to get it done.
The Kim dynasty has all the obnoxious aspects of absolute monarchy with none of the charm of real royalty. Has anyone noticed that the Kims are the only fat people in North Korea? I am sure it is not lost on the North Koreans. I don't believe it can last much longer. I suspect a lot of people in North Korea are storing up stones and rope for the happy day of their liberation.
I won't dignify this article, I'll file it next to "Hitler loves animals"
Like former disgraced Presidential candidate John Edwards, his hair was PERFECT.
So, who gives a rat's a## ? Come to think of it, that's what he looks like !
Maybe they ment to write "fascist" instead of "fashion". That hair cut is horribad. I do not care who you are or where you are from. NO ONE looks good in it, ever. "Chubby" is a word ment for cuddly stuff. This guy is a "Pig" as in "Fascist Pig". You know, seeing as most of the country he is going to be taking over is starving. I have one hope about this asshat in training. I hope that he is just waiting for the day he can make things better for his people. Probably wont happen.
I didnt know NK even had tupperware.
MSNBC: why why WHY give this tyrant a spot in International news? He's eating all the food in the country, disappearing people if they look at him sideways, sending people to work farms for life, and you people write a story about his hair. Imagine a family that has been destroyed by this pig and his Father somehow coming across your article about his m@+h*& f@<^inghaircut. What does that say about Americans, specifically American journalists?
Breakthroughs in science, medicine, and a phony, 20something 4STAR GENERALS HAIRCUT??????
North Korea just caught up to the 1990's fashion wise. Whats next? Hammer pants or Bugle Boy jeans?
Only fat guy in the whole putrid little kingdom, saving his mass-murdering POS father.
Mean. Ugly. Fat. Yup, here is a worthy successor to Dear Leader!
Kim Jong-un might not win the annual Elvis presley look-alike contest held in Russia each year if he keeps that haircut. This is the same contest that his alleged father (Kim Jong-il) and alleged grandfather (Kim Il-sung) won for the last 50 years in a row!