Posted on 07/29/2016 8:12:47 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea diplomats threaten African news outlets
By Lee Han-soo
North Korean diplomats are threatening media outlets in Africa that exposed the country's illegal activities, according to Radio Free Asia (RFA), a broadcasting agency operated by the U.S. government, Friday.
"We will never tolerate such dirty articles criticizing our supreme leader who is our nation's destiny and future," wrote Kim Chang Ryop, the North Korean ambassador to South Africa, to the Daily Maverick, a South African newspaper.
The Daily Maverick had published an article on July 12 that said North Korean diplomats have been implicated in the smuggling of rhino horns.
On June 7, four North Korean doctors barged into the office of The Citizen, a Tanzanian daily newspaper, which had reported on illegal clinics operating inside Tanzania. The doctors made violent protests against the daily for describing their clinic as a "rouge clinic," RFA said.
On May 2, two North Korean embassy employees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) made a ruckus in the office of Le Potential, a DRC daily newspaper, for publishing an article about a North Korean prison camp inside Equatorial Guinea. The two employees wanted the newspaper to give up its source.
North Korea has been putting effort into advertising the hermit state and its supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, using media outlets across the world. But their efforts seem fruitless as a press request by a North Korean ambassador to Angola was denied by ANGOP, a news agency in Angola.
Letter to the Editor: Dirty articles criticising Supreme leader
Daily Maverick Staff Reporter
17 Jul 2016 12:59 (South Africa)
The Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in Pretoria sends Letter of Protest to the Daily Maverick in Johannesburg informing as follows. By Kim Chang Ryop, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Daily Maverick has carried articles criticising Supreme leadership of the DPRK on 12 July 2016. The articles also carried the stories that North Korean embassy in Pretoria has actively involved in illegal activities.
We will never tolerate such a dirty articles criticising Supreme leader who is the destiny and future of its nation.
The article is absolutely cooked up and fabricated by none other than human being who knows nothing about DPRK.
We strongly urge Daily Maverick to erase all articles without delay that does nothing but only destroy the friendly relations between the DPRK and South Africa and infringed upon the dignity of the sovereign nation.
And we advise you to keep fairness and prudence in carrying articles.
Kim Chang Ryop, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
“Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary”
ROR!!!
And we advise you to keep fairness and prudence in carrying articles, also please include bank account and pin number.
Kim Chang Ryop, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
” a “rouge clinic,”
The doctors have pink cheeks?
For all the bloviating the Democrats have done about the nonexistent Trump/Putin connection, the Hillary/Kim Jong Un connection is a close and closely guarded one.
Why hasn’t he had an accident yet?
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