All in good taste? (Picture: PA)

We’ve all been there. You make a joke – it’s funny in your head – and then no one laughs.

Sometimes, if it’s particularly ‘edgy’, people might even get a bit annoyed or upset.

But that’s not really the end of the world now, is it?

Not unless the people you upset happen to be the whole of North Korea that is. Then it’s really less than ideal.


And that’s the lesson that Mo Nabbach, who runs M&M Hair Academy in South Ealing, has just learnt.

Mo thought it would be funny to use a massive picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un to advertise a 15% off discount offer.

Oh Mo! (Picture: PA)

And it was. To everyone except officials at the North Korean embassy, which unluckily for Mo, happens to be stationed just a few miles away in Gunnersbury.



Mo claims officials came to his shop and demanded he take the ‘disrespectful’ poster down.

At first Mo stood his ground. He told the Evening Standard: “I told them this is England and not North Korea and told them to get their lawyers.’

Despite his initial stance, Mo later took the poster down (we can’t say we blame him), though clients persuaded him to put it back up.

Somewhat surprisingly this isn’t the first hair styling scandal Kim Jong-Un has become embroiled in. He hit headlines back in March when he ordered that all male citizens get his distinctive haircut.