Posted 3/26/2024, 6:32:10 PM
North Korea Blurs Alan Titchmarsh's Subversive Jeans in Gardening Show Broadcast
- North Korea's state TV channel blurred out Alan Titchmarsh's jeans in his gardening show because jeans are seen as a symbol of Western imperialism and are banned
- Titchmarsh said the news has given him "street cred" and compares him to Elvis Presley and Rod Stewart
- North Korea's rules against jeans have been in place since the 1990s when Kim Jong-il declared them a symbol of American imperialism
- A recent crackdown on Western culture has reiterated the ban on jeans and "bourgeois culture"
- It's unclear how the BBC programme arrived in North Korea, but foreign media is sometimes smuggled over the Chinese border or state TV pirates content