Creating fake news for Kim dynasty
Chang Hae-seong, a former journalist for North Korea’s Central Television, speaks during an interview with The Korea Times at a café in Seoul, Tuesday. In 1996, he defected to South Korea to evade arrest from the security forces to save his life, after he shared classified information about the Kim family with one of his coworkers. / Korea TimesDefector recalls life as a journalist in the Hermit KingdomBy Kang Hyun-kyungBelieve it or not, North Korean founder and dictator Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of current leader Kim Jong-un, is portrayed particularly by older North Koreans as a superhero.According to them, the older Kim, who died of cardiac arrest in 1994, had the miraculous power to make bullets from sand dust, had the magical power to contract distances, and had crossed the Yalu River at the Chinese-North Korean border by riding on nothing but a withered leaf.For decades, North Korea’s state-controlled media have produced what people now call “fake news” for the Kim dynasty.Chang Hae-seong, a former journalist for the North’s Korean Centra
Aug 24, 2017
