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The row over a London hairdresser putting a picture of dictator Kim Jong-un in his shop window threatened to escalate into a diplomatic incident today after the North Korean embassy asked the Foreign Office to intervene.
Diplomats from the reclusive and repressive regime sent a letter to the Foreign Office on Monday calling for it to take “necessary action to stop the provocation”, according to a source.
Foreign Secretary William Hague’s officials were today considering how best to respond to the demand.
They may refer the diplomats to the police.
But Enfield Southgate Conservative MP David Burrowes, who sits on the all-party parliamentary group on North Korea, criticised the embassy’s stance.
“On the one hand their response is laughable,” he said.
“But underlying is a more sinister undertone which is played out in North Korea with people being locked up, killed and denied freedoms.”
The Standard revealed yesterday how M&M Hair Academy in South Ealing, west London, had a visit from North Korean officials after poking fun at their leader’s unusual hairstyle.
Staff at the hair salon put up a poster with “Bad Hair Day?” emblazoned across a picture of Kim Jong-un, with details of a special offer on men’s haircuts in April.
The dictator sports a striking hairdo which is shaved around the sides and then longer on top.
Barber Karim Nabbach, 26, said that salon manager Mo Nabbach was confronted by two men claiming to be officials from the country, demanding to know his name.
The North Korean embassy is ten minutes walk from the hair salon.
Diplomats from the reclusive and repressive regime sent a letter to the Foreign Office on Monday calling for it to take “necessary action to stop the provocation”, according to a source.
Foreign Secretary William Hague’s officials were today considering how best to respond to the demand.
They may refer the diplomats to the police.
But Enfield Southgate Conservative MP David Burrowes, who sits on the all-party parliamentary group on North Korea, criticised the embassy’s stance.
“On the one hand their response is laughable,” he said.
“But underlying is a more sinister undertone which is played out in North Korea with people being locked up, killed and denied freedoms.”
The Standard revealed yesterday how M&M Hair Academy in South Ealing, west London, had a visit from North Korean officials after poking fun at their leader’s unusual hairstyle.
Staff at the hair salon put up a poster with “Bad Hair Day?” emblazoned across a picture of Kim Jong-un, with details of a special offer on men’s haircuts in April.
The dictator sports a striking hairdo which is shaved around the sides and then longer on top.
Barber Karim Nabbach, 26, said that salon manager Mo Nabbach was confronted by two men claiming to be officials from the country, demanding to know his name.
The North Korean embassy is ten minutes walk from the hair salon.
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