In 2020, North Korea enacted the Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Act, blocking “external culture”.
But in 2023, the state-run Korean Central News Agency released a video of Ju Ae again strolling alongside her father in front of an intercontinental ballistic missile, this time wearing a black padded jacket later identified as a $1,900 (£1,405) purchase from luxury French fashion house Christian Dior.
The following year, Ju Ae wore a partially see-through blouse - revealing her arms - to the completion ceremony for a residential area of the capital, Pyongyang.
A video lecture was then released as a directive to ordinary citizens, warning that such hairstyles and outfits could not be worn by them as they were “anti-socialist and non-socialist phenomena that blur the image of the socialist system and eat away at the regime - targets that must be eradicated”, a local source told Radio Free Asia.
This week bcc deducted the inner workings of a country from the cloths a girl is wearing. Geniuses at work.