North Korean state television censored a pair of blue jeans when airing a British gardening show on Monday, a move that appears to reflect the regime’s efforts to restrict popular Western fashion and culture.

In the episode of the BBC TV series “Garden Secrets,” the British broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh kneels in a garden bed while tending to plants in a pair of jeans.

But when broadcasting the episode on Monday, the Korean Central Television (KCTV) applied a blurring effect to his legs, though this did not conceal the fact that he was wearing blue pants.

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