Journalists Fawn Over North Korean Cheerleaders and Chief of Propaganda and Agitation

Legacy news outlets released glowing pieces on North Korea’s presence at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Among the reports were The New York Times praising the North Korean cheerleaders, Reuters saying North Korea was “judged winner of diplomatic gold” at the games, and others that praised the sister of the North Korean dictator who heads the communist regime’s Department of Propaganda and Agitation.

The articles showed the double-mindedness of many of the same news outlets, which have recently switched to positive reporting on the North Korean communist regime as it has backed down from confrontation with the United States. Only a few months ago the same outlets claimed that Trump’s strong stance on North Korea could provoke the regime into a nuclear war.

Joe Concha, a reporter for The Hill, wrote on Twitter, “Just a reminder that Kim Jong-un’s sister literally heads the Department of Propaganda and Agitation. The Soviets called it Agitprop. The NY Times & other outlets are providing North Korea, with this fawning coverage, more than it could have ever dreamed of. We’ve lost our minds.”