Today I learned that they don’t have jeans in North Korea because it is supposed to be a symbol of American imperialism. Unclear why North Korean officials hate denim so much but they are tyrants and these people are going to do whatever it is that they do.

In other news, North Korea shockingly allowed a British gardening show to be watched. However, they blurred out the pants so citizens would not get any smart ideas by seeing an Englishman wear jeans.

Also, I doubt people do much gardening in the country considering the amount of people who die from starvation but due to the lack of entertainment in North Korea, I wouldn't complain if I were them.

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According to CNN:

North Korea’s state broadcaster, KCTV, has blurred out a pair of jeans worn by veteran British TV host Alan Titchmarsh as part of the country’s censorship of foreign fashion and culture.

KCTV carried an episode of Titchmarsh’s show “Garden Secrets,” originally aired on the BBC in 2010, on Monday.
At one point he can be seen kneeling in a flowerbed, and keen-eyed viewers will notice that the lower half of his body has been blurred to obscure the jeans he is wearing.

Titchmarsh told the BBC that the censorship had given him some “street cred.”

“I’ve never seen myself as a dangerous subversive imperialist - I’m generally regarded as rather cosy and pretty harmless, so actually it’s given me a bit of street cred really hasn’t it?” he said.

Did anyone else read that quote with a British accent?

Nam Sung-wook, a professor of North Korean Studies at Korea University in Seoul, told CNN that the censorship shows North Korea is strictly implementing the newly adopted Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Act.

“The act aims to prohibit North Korean residents from imitating foreign countries in various aspects, including how they’re dressed and speak,” he said.

He added that jeans have been banned for residents as a symbol of American imperialism, but some flexibility has been applied to foreign visitors because they can’t prevent them from wearing jeans.

Peter Ward, a research fellow at the Sejong Institute in South Korea, said the censorship is part of a fight against “anti-socialist culture and ideology.”

“Blue jeans are associated with ‘decadent’ Western culture, as they were in the Soviet Union, and Kim Jong Il ordered officials to rid the country of them back in the 1990s,” he said.

Honestly, the most shocking thing about this story is that North Koreans watch Alan Titchmarsh.

But it’s not a new phenomenon that Socialists hate jeans. The same was true for the USSR. There was even a black marketfor it. People went to prison for “trafficking” denim. It’s not clear exactly what the punishment for wearing jeans in North Korea is but it’s probably even worse than anyone can imagine.

It's not surprising that tyrants who run socialist countries despise nice things. Even though jeans are as mediocre as something can get. But anything that brings comfort is not something these people want. And this is yet another example of those that censor things are often on the wrong side of history.

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