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The Associated Press in North Korea: A Potemkin news bureau?
Confidential AP agreement with North Korea gives Pyongyang control over news stories
December 26, 2014: This article has been updated to include a link to the full AP – KCNA draft agreement
Despite trumpeting itself as the "first independent Western news bureau" in North Korea, top executives of the Associated Press (AP) in 2011 agreed to distribute state-produced North Korean propaganda through the AP name, a confidential document and interviews with current and former AP staff indicates.
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