A salon owner who put up a poster poking fun at the hairstyle of the North Korean leader was visited by two angry embassy officials who demanded its removal.
Staff at M&M Hair Academy in South Ealing, west London, put up a poster with “Bad Hair Day?” emblazoned across a picture of Kim Jong-un.
Last month the North Korean government decreed that the ‘Dear Leader’ haircut was the only one its male citizens were allowed.
At the start of the month staff at M&M Hair Academy put out the poster of Kim Jong-un, 31, to promote its 15 per cent off all gents hair cuts deal for April.
Just two days later barber Karim Nabbach, 26, said his dad Mo Nabbach, 51, were confronted by two men claiming to be officials from the rogue state.
The North Korean embassy is based in a semi-detached house in the west London suburb of Gunnersbury.
Karim Nabbach said: “We put up posters for an offer for men’s hair cuts through the month of April.
“Obviously in the current news there has been this story that North Korean men are only allowed one haircut.
“We didn’t realise but the North Korean embassy is a 10 minute walk from the salon.
“The next day two men in suits came into the shop. They both looked quite threatening and were very serious.
“The said they were North Korean officials and wanted to speak to the manager.
“When they spoke to my dad they asked for his name.
“He said ‘listen this isn’t North Korea, this is England, we live in a democracy so I’m afraid you’re going to have to get out of my salon’.
“The men told him that they were be consulting their lawyers and left saying the words: ‘We will see.’”