State of Un-dress: North Korean dictator bans jeans and piercings in latest crackdown on Western fashion

Kim Jong-un launches crackdown focusing on areas close to China border.[CN]

金正恩发起了针对中朝边境附近的取缔运动。

Pyongyang woried citizens are becoming exposed to outside influences.[CN]

平壤害怕边境民众过分暴露在外部世界的影响之下。

The restrictions on Western clothing said to include jeans and piercings.[CN]

禁止的西方衣饰包括牛仔裤和打耳洞。

For the latest North Korean news visit www.dailymail.co.uk/northkorea.[CN]

更多最新朝鲜新闻，请查看网址www.dailymail.co.uk/northkorea。

Dictator Kim Jong-un has launched a nationwide crackdown on what his citizens can wear but the ban will focus primarily on the North Hamgyong province and Yanggang province close to China.[CN]

独裁者金正恩发起了全国性的取缔运动，规定民众可穿的衣饰。禁令主要针对靠近中国边境的咸镜道省和两江道省。

It comes just months after it was reported that Kim Jong-un (pictured) was ordering men to copy his 'ambitious' hair style limiting growth to a maximum length of 2cm.[CN]

报道称金正恩（如图）命令民众只能剪他那样的酷炫发型，不能长于2cm。报道后仅几个月他掀起了西方服饰取缔活动。

North Koreans have been banned from having piercings and face new restrictions on 'Western clothing' including jeans.[CN]

朝鲜禁止打耳洞，新的禁令还禁止穿西方服饰-牛仔裤。

North Koreans have been banned from having piercings and face new restrictions on 'Western clothing' including jeans.

Dictator Kim Jong-un has launched a nationwide crackdown on citizens but the ban will focus primarily on the North Hamgyong province and Yanggang province close to China.

Pyongyang is reportedly concerned that people living in those areas will be more exposed to the outside world and therefore more influence by Western fashion.

According to Japan's Asia Press, the rules have been tightened ahead of the 7th Congress of North Korea's Workers' Party.

Ishimaru Jiro, a Japanese journalist working with citizen reporters inside North Korea, wrote: 'A growing number of North Korean people are infatuated with Western culture. The crackdown will continue until the end of the upcoming gathering (the 7th Congress).'

According to the Daily Telegraph, citizens will be monitored by a growing group of youths loyal to Kim Jong-un 

Rimjin-gang, a North Korean news website supported by AsiaPress, said the 'inspection' units 'target supposed capitalist tendencies such as length of skirts, the shape of shoes, T-shirts, hairstyles, and clothes.

It comes just months after it was reported that Kim Jong-un was ordering men to copy his 'ambitious' hair style limiting growth to a maximum length of 2cm.

Anyone breaching the restrictive guidelines faced having their hair shorn by authorities, especially in universities, who have been warned to watch out for any capitalist styles.

Women were advised to copy his wife, Ri Sol-ju's bob.

The latest fashion crackdown comes as North Korea's preparations for a fifth nuclear bomb test were revealed to be in their 'final stages' amid reports of a surge in activity at the country's main atomic site.

South Korean and U.S. authorities detected two to three times more vehicle and personnel activities than normal this month at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site – where all previous four tests took place.

'If they are signs of nuclear test preparations, it seems the preparations are in the final stages,' South Korea's Yonhap news agency said quoted one government source as saying.

In a regular meeting with her top adviser, South Korea President Park Geun-hye said the North could carry out such a test to bolster morale as the country deals with tough international sanctions imposed after it conducted a fourth nuclear test and a long-range rocket launch earlier this year.