Barber defends Kim Jong-un 'bad hair day' sign outside hairdressing salon
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A barber has fiercely defended a sign of Kim Jong-un outside his hairdressing salon captioned: 'Don't have a bad hair day'.
Critics say the advert outside Jay's Male Grooming in Belfast featuring the crazed North Korean dictator is in "bad taste" - with the city's former mayor calling for it to be removed given Jong-un's "track record".
But the owner Jason Millar insists he won't be removing it as just a bit of light-hearted fun.
"People have been coming into the salon and saying how it's given them a giggle and that was the idea," his partner Orla McCormack told Belfast Live .
"The reaction has been great so Jason is going to keep it up until his next bright idea!"
Former Lord Mayor of Belfast, Jim Rodgers, disagrees however - and predicts it won't "go down very well".
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The UUP councillor told the Belfast Telegraph : "I can understand where the owner's coming from, but with the track record of this individual I think it's most certainly in bad taste and will not go down very well in the area I grew up in."
Tensions between North Korea and the West are at an all-time high - with the communist state continuing to conduct ballistic missile tests and a war of words escalating between Jong-un and US President Donald Trump showing no signs of easing.
Mr Miller also told the Telegraph of the maniac leader's haircut: "It's not that far rmeoved from the short back and sides everyone seems to like now.
"It's all good-hearted banter and not something people should really be worried about."
Jong-un is thought unlikely to find it so funny however - as if the joke was within his borders the prankster would almost certainly face severe punishment, if not be sentenced to death.
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Indeed, MirrorOnline reported back in April 2014 how a barber in London had been visited by angry North Korean embassy officials after displaying a poster mocking the dictator's haircut.
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.
Two angry embassy officials turned up and demanded its removal.
Barber Karim Nabbach said his dad Mo told them "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’," said Mr Nabbach.