Clothing Laws By Country - North Korea

North Korea

The North Korean activist group Good Friends has issued a report claiming that women caught wearing trousers risk hours of forced labor or fines of 700 won. Previously in 1986 a decree issued by Kim Jong-Il called on women to wear traditional Korean attire as it was a source of national pride.

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