North Korea’s state television channel show BBC Gardening programme, and censor Alan Titchmarsh’s trousers.
North Korea’s state television channel show BBC Gardening programme, and censor Alan Titchmarsh’s trousers.
North Korea’s state television has censored a BBC gardening program by obscuring presenter Alan Titchmarsh’s lower body attire.
North Korea’s Central TV aired an episode from 2010 of Alan Titchmarsh’s Garden Secrets for its morning audience, ensuring that viewers couldn’t discern his jeans.
In North Korea, jeans are viewed as a symbol of Western imperialism and are therefore prohibited. These regulations have been in place since the 1990s when leader Kim Jong-il denounced denim trousers as emblematic of Western, particularly American, imperialism incompatible with a socialist state, as reported by Seoul-based NK News.
The ban on jeans has been reinforced in recent years with a crackdown on Western culture, as articulated by the state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun, urging citizens in 2020 to reject “bourgeois culture” in favor of a “superior socialist lifestyle.”
Current leader Kim Jong-un, known for his preference for loose-fitting trousers, reportedly disapproves of skinny jeans and T-shirts adorned with Western logos, which are popular in South Korea.
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