[Jet Jaguar]

related thread from Oct 2006

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723257/posts

[F.J. Mitchell]

Diane was probably only shown the school for the children of the elite.The Teen who proclaimed them to be "the happiest children in the world" was likely that General's own daughter.

[Wilhelm Tell]

More proof that there isn't a dysfunctional communist country that the mainstream media won't eagerly find a way to praise. ABC has to be sophisticated enough to realize that they are just broadcasting North Korean propaganda. They don't mind looking like uncritical dolts as long as it serves a leftist cause. My thought is that since Iraq is finished, the next point of conflict might be North Korea so the MSM will now feature many stories about how North Korea only has "peaceful intentions," etc.

I was amazed that CNN did a documentary on North Korea last year that showed how bleak things were there (people dropping dead in the streets from starvation). I don't know how CNN allowed a little truth to get through.

[Cheapskate]

Where have all the puppies gone?

Long time passing

where the kitties gone

long time ago

where have all the critters

prepared in woks every one

When will they ever learn,

When will they evvvvver learn!

[6SJ7]

Diane Sawyer, the 21st Century Walter Duranty.

[razorback-bert]

[dfwgator]

She is a graduate of the "Walter Duranty School of Journalism."

[sporkgoddess]

I actually didn't think it was that bad. Some of her questions were really stupid, and it annoyed me how she only went 20 miles out of Pyong Ying and assumed that everyone was living the same lifestyle in North Korea, but she didn't go "They are superior to us in every way!" Plus I learned a lot of interesting things.

[george76]

'Happiest Children in World'

[VeniVidiVici]

Far from being embarrassed by Sawyer's obsequious approach, anchor Charles Gibson proposed: "A fascinating glimpse of North Korea."

LOL! Maybe we should petition Fox to show Team AmericaOf course we wouldn't be able to hear any of it.

[chit*chat]

The media is only too happy to report on the Potemkin Village set up for them instead of looking behind the set up for the truth. Blissfully ignorant is the term, I believe.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Why not? Right before we invaded Iraq she went there and filmed Saddam's birthday celebrations... the children just LOVED it!

[omega4179]

Hitler youth where happy too. I suggest Diane move permanently to North Korea and eat bark soup.

[mware]

If they are the happiest children in the world, they are the ones that Mentally Ill, picked to be his little props for the people like Sawyer to film.

[mware]

Famine-struck N Koreans 'eating children'
By Mark Nicol
Last Updated: 11:29pm BST 07/06/2003



Cannibalism is increasing in North Korea following another poor harvest and a big cut in international food aid, according to refugees who have fled the stricken country.

Aid agencies are alarmed by refugees' reports that children have been killed and corpses cut up by people desperate for food. Requests by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to be allowed access to "farmers' markets", where human meat is said to be traded, have been turned down by Pyongyang, citing "security reasons".

Anyone caught selling human meat faces execution, but in a report compiled by the North Korean Refugees Assistance Fund (NKRAF), one refugee said: "Pieces of 'special' meat are displayed on straw mats for sale. People know where they came from, but they don't talk about it."

[Malone LaVeigh]

'" In a second segment, Sawyer was taken to a school which she favorably described as “a world away from the unruly individualism of any American school."

That's because the kids are probably too weak from hunger to get unruly.

[popdonnelly]

That this program was shown is, in fact, an outrage.

[silverleaf]

OH MY GOD megabarf.

Diane Sawyer fell for this? And her network abandoned their common human decency and journalistic integrity (an anachronism, I know) by broadcasting it?

What next- a visit to the "Happy Little Campers" nursery school in Darfur?

Since we took out Saddam Hussein, there now is no more horrible regime in the world than that of North Korea.

http://www.hrnk.org/TheHiddenGulag-press.pdf

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2483708,00.html

http://www.wright-house.com/right/north-korean-gulag.html

http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2004/october/28.39.html