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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"

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.

Woodruff is not the only one. CBS has a crew there, and NBC dispatched a managerial team from London and New York for a look-see, laying the groundwork for future coverage. And CNN has been going