Why North Korea has become flavor of the month for American media

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Why North Korea has become flavor of the month for American media

"What counts is the story the North Koreans want the world to know"

Donald Kirk August 10, 2016

Why North Korea has become flavor of the month for American media

Zapping on North Korean TV : Staline, propaganda, meetings.. by Eric Lafforgue on 2009-05-15 17:26:53

North Korea is looking like the flavor of the month for American broadcast media.

ABC’s Bob Woodruff was just there, interviewing a foreign ministry official, flying over Pyongyang for an unprecedented view of the capital, mixing it up with people in a park and going down to Panmunjom, the truce village on the North-South line, where he interviewed a Korean People’s Army major.

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Donald Kirk

Donald Kirk is a veteran correspondent and noted author on conflict and crisis from Southeast Asia to the Middle East to Northeast Asia. Don has covered wars from Vietnam to Iraq, focusing on political, diplomatic, economic and social as well as military issues. He is also known for his reporting on North Korea, including the nuclear crisis, human rights and payoffs from South to North Korea preceding the June 2000 inter-Korean summit. Kirk earned his Bachelors at Princeton and a Masters in International Relations from the University of Chicago. He also holds an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Maryland College Park.

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