Kim Jong Un bans leather jackets so citizens won't copy his look
Law enforcement in North Korea are playing fashion police after their Kim Jong Un asked that residents stop wearing leather trench coats.
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Law enforcement in North Korea are playing fashion police after their Kim Jong Un asked that residents stop wearing leather trench coats.
Literal fashion police confiscate pleather trench coats from citizens who dare wear them in public.
Fashion police have been confiscating leather trench coats from North Koreans after a proliferation of cheap knock-offs of Kim's fashion favourite led to fears it was undermining his authority.
The coats are recognized in the hermit kingdom as "a symbol of power," a source told Radio Free Asia
While starvation is a problem in North Korea, there is also said to be an obesity epidemic among North Korea’s elite class.