Shhh, don’t give Obama any ideas.

Via The Independent:

It’s been at least a couple of months since a tale of dictatorial excess has emerged from North Korea, and the latest is no less bizarre with reports that men have been instructed to adopt a ‘Dear Leader’ haircut in honour of Kim Jong-un.

State-sanctioned guidelines were imposed on the capital Pyongyang two weeks ago, the BBC reports, with the shaved sides, ahead-of-the-trend, high-top fade haircut look now being rolled out across the country.

“Our leader’s haircut is very particular, if you will,” a source told Radio Free Asia. “It doesn’t always go with everyone since everyone has different face and head shapes.”

However, the secretive state does have history when it comes to its citizens’ hairstyles – last year it issued a list of 10 approved model socialist trims.

And state TV reportedly launched a campaign against long hair recently, declaring: “Let us trim our hair in accordance with the Socialist lifestyle,” though a former NK resident now living in China told the Korea Times that the style is actually not that popular back home, where it used to be known as the “Chinese smuggler haircut”.