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To: Gforce11
This is where the crass charlatanism of the US media comes into play.

These photos have been out for months!

Other NK defector eyewitness sketches and accounts have been out for years in the form of documentaries, books, lectures, Asian language websites!

This information has been on S. Korean and Japanese TV in great details for years.

And yet, because North Korea is finally an issue (the US media and US people are brain dead about it for years leading up to it), this is 'some big new discovery and revelation on US TV.' Now thanks to NBC's week long 'expose' on North Korea, we are all supposed to be surprised and poised on the end of our seats in America for some flow of new information? Hogwash. This has bee known for years, has been in Congressional hearings, is all over the internet. (Where have the major US TV networks and the audiences they served been for the last 10 years?)

For pete's sake, the "NBC" photos were taken from the Far East Economic Review several months back.

Just confirms my impression that US media is so LATE and so SURFACE when it comes to reporting anything about Asia and in particular, North Korea.

Best for Freepers to get automatic Korean to English or Japanese to English software, and rely on the MEDIA IN ASIA if they want timely and detailed information to follow events.

21 posted on 01/16/2003 6:09:56 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (We're liable to get a reputation as a nation willing to oppose considerably weaker nations, only....)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Best for Freepers to get automatic Korean to English or Japanese to English software

I'm all ears. Got a URL?

25 posted on 01/16/2003 7:57:59 AM PST by tictoc
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