North Korea censored footage of a benign English gardening show because its presenter was wearing jeans

• North Korea censored a broadcast featuring the English gardening TV host Alan Titchmarsh.
• It blurred out his legs in an episode where he was wearing jeans.
• North Korea regards jeans as a symbol of Western imperialism and tries to obscure them in media.

North Korea censored footage of the TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh to hide the fact that he was wearing jeans.

North Korea's Central TV broadcast Titchmarsh's 2010 show "Garden Secrets" recently, but obscured his trousers.

North Korean media is known for being heavily censored — but this example raised eyebrows in England due to Titchmarsh's benign, unthreatening character.

His jeans appear to have been at odds with laws banning US denim products, which the Pyongyang regime sees as a symbol of imperialism.