London salon’s North Korea ad sparks hair raising encounter for Kim Jong-un
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.
Unfortunately for the salon it just happened to be close to the North Korean embassy in the capital, prompting a group of Far East agents to drop in and demand that the ‘disrespectful’ advert be removed.
Salon owner Mo Nabbach said; “'I noticed them first outside the shop. They came in and asked what the poster was doing in the window and demanded for it to be taken down.
“I said it was only a poster and we have pictures of celebrities in the window all the time. They said: ‘This is no celebrity, it's our dear leader’. They asked for my name and I refused to give it to them, saying ‘this is not North Korea, this is England, and you can get out’.
“They left and I called the police just in case they ended up smashing the windows. We did take it down but then some of our clients told me to put it back up because we have a democracy here”.