> 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.
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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.
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]
> "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.