NK women banned from wearing pants?

North Korea has banned women from wearing pants in public, Radio Free Asia reported Wednesday, citing North Korean sources visiting China.

As of September 1, the North Korean government announced a crackdown on local women wearing pants in public. Female university students are most likely to get caught, locals said.

A North Korean news outlet dubbed this as “a move to block the yellow breeze from the south.”

North Korea reportedly allowed women to wear “non-revealing and neat” pants in public five years ago.

However, the country has seen an increase in females wearing jeans, capri pants and even skinny jeans – styles popular in the South.

The ban would mean that women working in factories would have to wear skirts when they commute, the report said.