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North Korea TV Censors Alan Titchmarsh's Trousers

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> "You couldn't send Dad's Army, as it is about war. But Teletubbies could be an option, or The Good Life, with a bit of gardening and squabbling in the kitchen".

The Good Life? I mean... I remember it as being quite political; it's about a suburban middle-class couple who renounce consumerism and turn their house into a farm, to the annoyance of their irritating social-climbing neighbours. Now, maybe that is political in a manner appealing to North Korea, but it's hardly just a bit of gardening and squabbling in the kitchen.

The Good Life was genuinely a fantastic show. Both sides of the ideological spectrum had to make compromises to fuel their respective lifestyles, and both were better off for it.

Yeah, but lots of denim dungarees - all you'd see is Felicity's head and hands.

> Current leader Kim Jong-un, himself a fan of voluminous legwear, is reportedly irked by skinny jeans and T-shirts bearing Western logos which are popular in South Korea.

This all feels a bit tawdry to me. I feel like I rarely see this kind of content on HN, and tbf I’d kinda rather not see it at all.

I am so glad Titchmarsh's trousers are a threat to the North Korean regimes hold on it's people. What else can we throw at them, Angela Rippon's legs?

Reminds me of a story about one of the things people smuggle into North Korea is USB sticks filled with foreign sitcoms, ebooks and movies.

I would suggest taking basically any news of this type about NK with a grain of salt - a lot of it comes from South Korean tabloids afaik.

If even this kinda article makes it to the 2nd page of hacker news, I don't know if I should continue to frequent this website.

Don’t worry these id*ts only have the data of tens of millions of UK voters.

China I think? (Although they may well share them with Russia and NK)

The BBC going at it, as usual. They've been on a roll the last couple of years, a step up though compared to "Gaddafi's soldiers are high on Viagra all the time!!" [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13705854

Going at what? You clearly just have an axe to grind, it's pretty cringe to bring war rape in North Africa into a discussion about censorship of images of jeans in North Korea.

It's no surprise to find literal pro-fascism, pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine nonsense in your comment history. Strange fella.

> a step up though compared to "Gaddafi's soldiers are high on Viagra all the time!!" [1]

That's a much more serious article than TFA (which sure is one of their clickbaity gossip rag kind); what it actually says is:

> Mr Moreno-Ocampo also said some witnesses had confirmed that the Libyan government was buying containers of Viagra-type drugs to carry out the policy, and to "enhance the possibility to rape".

Witnesses as in Nayirah testimony?

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