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International News Title: Kim Yo-Jong, Sister of a Dictator, Gets Celebrity Treatment from U.S. Media Its possiblelikely eventhat some American media outlets will soon have to pull a similar trick. For their coverage this weekend of the visit by Kim Yo-jong, sister of Kim Jong-un, to the Pyeongchang Olympics is eerily reminiscent of Vogues hagiography of the brutal dictators wife. Kim Yo-jong is no mere spectator to her brothers misrule of North Korea. Shes an elite member of his regime, as director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers Party of Korea. There she oversees the propaganda regime that constitutes a key component of the enslavement her countrys people. Shes also a member of the Politburo. But dont just take it for meKim is personally sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for her role in sustaining North Koreas oppressive regime. You wouldnt know that from, for example, CNNs treatment of Kim, however. Instead, the most trusted name in news reported this weekend she is stealing the show at the Olympics by virtue of her smile, and warm message. CNN further said that Kim was earning a gold medal for her diplomatic dance. Here are a few terms that did not appear in CNNs article: gulag; human rights; nuclear weapons; missiles. The article literally does not even mention that Kim is sanctioned by the U.S. government. Other U.S. outlets were similarly glib; Business Insider celebrated that Kim threw a look at the camera while standing behind Vice President Mike Pence. By the way, it later emerged that a highly paid PR firm had midwifed the Assad Vogue article. Whats CNNs excuse? While CNN and others have feted Kims visit, those with the most at stakethe South Koreanshave been decidedly more clear-eyed about the purpose of her visit. Take this editorial in the Chosun Ilbo, South Koreas newspaper of record: It would of course be wonderful if the Moon Jae-in administration's efforts lead to denuclearization talks, but Kim Jong-un is not sending his people to Pyeongchang to talk about disarmament. He is sending them to weaken sanctions and spread propaganda, the paper argued. The Joongang Ilbo, another leading daily, made the interesting point that Kim Yo-jongs visit is a sign of North Korean weakness, not the confidence that others have projected on it: South Korea is North Koreas last resort. Pyongyangs dispatching of Kim Yo-jong testifies to its deepening pains from sanctions, the paper argued. Whatever the case, one cant help but be stunned at the blatant amorality of CNN and the likes coverage. Kim Yo-jong is thought to be about 30 years old; like her older brother, she appears to have been educated in Switzerland while a mass famine, caused by their fathers callous policies, killed hundreds of thousands (or perhaps even millionsthe true extent is still not known) of her countrymen in the 1990s. I know another North Korean, roughly Kims age, who now lives in Seoul; he survived the famine but you can see the mark it left upon him: He never fully developed, his frame is tiny, though his hands are those of a bigger man, a man who would have been bigger had he not suffered from malnutrition. Now CNN glamorizes an agent of the regime that did that to him. Poster Comment: U.S. libmedia is so deranged in the Trump Derangement Syndrome that they are proudly playing the same role of whitewashing the bloody Nork regime in the same way that the NYSlimes and Walter Durante and the New Republic (among others) whitewashed the Bolshevik revolution and the regimes of Lenin and Stalin. Even the Slimes eventually had to condemn his reporting as the worst misinfo that had ever appeared in their pages. I'd say these libmedia hacks are giving Walter Durante a run for his money for the title of the greatest appeasers of a vicious communist totalitarian regime. They also like the Castro regime pretty well. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 3.
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Sounds a lot like what the US military did in Iraq stamping out the rebellion there, though granted, they were nice enough not to use chem weapons. I'd venture the general western take on Assad is extensively demonized for political purposes.
A fairly abrupt change. You may recall that John Kerry and his ugly bitch wife had dinner with the Assads some years back. And Pelosi flew over to Syria with a few hundred Dems and a few weak GOPes to pander to Assad. He spent 3 days trying to avoid her, even though she was wearing the hijab and humiliating herself constantly. The neocons tried talking up refusing to allow the Pelosi plane to come back to the States and the usual prattle about whether they should be charged with violating the Logan Act (an 18th century law that has never had a single prosecution). The Dems and U.S. media loved Assad. There was no mistaking it. Now they're in love with the sister and accomplice of the modern world's most genocidal dictator who likes to brag about pointing hydrogen bombs at Guam, Hawaii, and the States. They're completely deranged over Trump who isn't that much better or worse on any given day than any other modern prez.
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