I feel like this is a big accusation with flimsy sourcing, Russiagate-esque. It also seems like the NYT didn’t see this as a big deal. I don’t know what to make of it.
Can’t be too critical of Dear Leader, now can we? Juuuust enough to pretend there’s a free, independent press. But not so much that the Powers That Be get their feelings hurt.
It does seem a little weird that the NY Crimes published anything sympathetic to DPRK and that makes US foreign policy look bad, but maybe this one slipped past the editorial controls.
I feel like this is a big accusation with flimsy sourcing, Russiagate-esque. It also seems like the NYT didn’t see this as a big deal. I don’t know what to make of it.
DPRK citizens aren’t humans to them unless they become “defectors.”
Can’t be too critical of Dear Leader, now can we? Juuuust enough to pretend there’s a free, independent press. But not so much that the Powers That Be get their feelings hurt.
It does seem a little weird that the NY Crimes published anything sympathetic to DPRK and that makes US foreign policy look bad, but maybe this one slipped past the editorial controls.