North Korea media tone down anti-US rhetoric

The Financial Times ^ | June 21, 2018 | Bryan Harris and Kang Buseong

[2ndDivisionVet]

For decades, the US was a “rotten, diseased, pirate nation” in the eyes of North Korea’s propagandists. Then almost overnight the hate stopped.

Following a landmark summit between Pyongyang and Washington on June 12, anti-US vitriol has disappeared from state media reports — a development that some analysts see as preparing North Koreans for a new era in relations between the two long-time adversaries.

“The anti-American slant is just gone. North Korea appears to be preparing people for a new beginning,” said Peter Ward, an expert at Seoul National University who studies the North’s propaganda.

The changes in Pyongyang’s rhetoric will bolster hopes of those, including US president Donald Trump, who believe that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is sincere about reorienting his reclusive nation back into the international community.

When the two leaders met in Singapore last week, they pledged a “new future” and since then the overtures have been positive.

On Tuesday, Washington nixed long-running military exercises that irked Pyongyang. North Korea, for its part, appears set to repatriate the remains of US servicemen killed during the Korean war in the 1950s.

Scepticism persists, however, that North Korea is using the becalmed atmosphere to push for sanctions relief and has not actually moved towards the ostensible goal of the Singapore summit: the regime’s denuclearisation....

[trebb]

I take it as a positive sign - time will tell but Trump seems to be doing what the "experts" have long considered to be impossible.....

MAGA!!!

[Paperpusher]

Now if we could only get the US media to do the same.

[a fool in paradise]

They’ve surrendered in that war, the US media is a harsher critic of the US than anyone else these days.

Waaaaaa, Hillary lost, waaaaaaa

[Eleutheria5]

Too much. Hopeless.

[madison10]

Miracles? You want miracles?

[kiryandil]

Wow. Do you think the US media will follow suit and tone down its anti-US rhetoric or is that too much to expect?

They want to sabotage denuclearization because Trump is doing it...