Authorities in North Korea have been ordered to identify women with "un-socialist" and "bourgeois" breast implants, The Telegraph reports, citing local media.

Undercover agents are now groping for 'enhanced' women, as well as for doctors who perform the cosmetic procedures, primarily around the city of Sariwon, with perpetrators facing potential detention in the country's notorious labor camps.

Suspected women will be "taken to hospitals to undergo medical examinations to ascertain whether any procedures have taken place," a tough job for whoever has to do it. 

The controversy bounced into the headlines after a dropout medical student was busted performing the surgery out of his home. During his trial, prosecutors displayed his surgical devices, along with imported Chinese silicone breasts and bundles of cash. 

The Telegraph reports:

The city's residents, who had turned out to attend the public hearing, watched as the women and the doctor were dragged out onto an open stage, where they stood with their heads bowed for the proceedings.

The two women told prosecutors and the presiding judge that they had undergone the surgeries because they "wanted to improve their bodies".

The judge called the breast augmentation surgery an "un-socialist act" and said one of the defendants "had no intention of being loyal to the organisation and group, but was obsessed with vanity and ended up becoming a poisonous weed that was eating away at the socialist system".