April 16, 2024
Opinion

Why reports of Kim Jong Un’s untimely death turned out to be greatly exaggerated

Something may have happened to the North Korean leader, but the media has failed to learn from past mistakes

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For the last ten days or so, wohonestrld media suddenly began to pay a great deal of attention to North Korea – and, for a change, this time this burst of interest was not prompted by another nuclear test or an exchange of melodramatic threats with the U.S.

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