WATCH: North Korea blurs BBC TV host's 'illegal bourgeois' jeans in gardening show
"The issue was that he was wearing decadent capitalist jeans - it's not even tight jeans, it's just jeans, denim."
Ray White speaks to Adam Gilchrist who reports on trending global news. Skip to 3:33 for this one.
On Monday (25 March), Korean Central Television aired an episode of the 2010 BBC series of Gardening Secrets, featuring the famous British gardener and broadcaster, Alan Fred Titchmarsh.
The episode was said to be a condensed version of the original, and at one point the North Korean broadcaster blurred out Titchmarsh's jeans.
In the scene, Titchmarsh is kneeling in a garden, tending to plants, when the blurred effect is applied to his legs.
It doesn't hide the fact he's wearing trousers, just obscures them.
Watch below.
Gilchrist reports that the jeans censoring is said to be linked to Kim Jong Un's regime's efforts to restrict Western fashion and culture in North Korea, where blue jeans are banned and declared "illegal."
For the North Korean regime, a pair of blue jeans symbolises an act of resistance against the totalitarian state of North Korea and offers a potential glimpse of what a post-authoritarian society could look like.
"So there he is with a blurred crotch. The issue was that he was wearing decadent capitalist jeans - it's not even tight jeans, it's just jeans, denim."
- Adam Gilchrist, The World View
Gilchrist adds that it is "odd" how North Korea got hold of the Gardening Secrets episode.
"It is illegal to show foreign programming in North Korea and I believe it's llegal to sell the footage because of sanctions against it. So, how did they get the footage? Has it been stolen off a memory card, nicked off a satellite, smuggled illegally on a disc? All of that - someone's gone through great effort just to blur the bourgeois slacks."
- Adam Gilchrist, The World View
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