North Korea's communist government is urging women in the country to wear traditional Korean clothes instead of pants, according to a North Korean monthly magazine.

"Keeping alive our dress style is a very important political issue to adhere to specific national cultural traditions at a time when the U.S. imperialists are maneuvering to spread the rotten bourgeois lifestyle inside North Korea," the Joson Yeosung (Woman) magazine said, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

The magazine said exotic dress dampens the revolutionary atmosphere in society and blurs national sentiment and asked the public to reject clothes that aren't North Korean style. Instead, it counsels women to wear Hanbok — the brightly colored, loose-fitting dresses that are traditional in the Koreas.

The campaign comes as North Korea struggles to tighten its control over an influx of outside influences, which it claims is part of a U.S. psychological offensive aimed at toppling the communist regime — a charge Washington denies.

Early this year, the North also launched a social campaign against men with long hair, calling them unhygienic, anti-socialist fools.

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　　据美联社11月4日援引韩国联合通讯社的报道，朝鲜一家女性杂志刊登文章指出：“在美帝国主义企图将腐朽的资产阶级生活方式蔓延到朝鲜的时候，保持传统服饰已上升为一个保护朝鲜传统文化的政治问题。”

　　该杂志指出：“外来服饰不但严重影响了本国的革命氛围，还损伤了人民的爱国热情，因此大家应该拒绝身着非本民族的服饰。”该杂志同时强调，朝鲜女性应该身着颜色艳丽、宽松舒适的朝鲜传统服装——韩服。

　　报道说，今年初，朝鲜还展开了一场反对男性蓄长发的行动，认为男性蓄发是不卫生的习惯。