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London salon’s North Korea ad sparks hair raising encounter for Kim Jong-un

on Apr 16, 2014 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

A north London hair salon has become the unlikely focus of a diplomatic spat with North Korea after the innocuous hairdresser chose to display an ad mocking North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un in its shop window.

M&M Hair Academy utilised a snap of the dictator and his distinctive hair style, overlayed with some text reading ‘bad hair day? – 15% off all gent cuts through the month of April.’

The top-heavy look is soon to become the height of fashion in the hermit kingdom after Jong-Un mandated that all young men mimic the look – under pain of severe punishment.

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Source: The Drum