After the homecoming of American journalists from North Korea, an article for Herald de Paris [2] discusses what the North Korean media said about the incident. A video [3]posted on YouTube — which appears to be a report from the state-sponsored Korean Central television — has no images of the tearful women, but lots of pictures of Bill Clinton meeting various North Korean dignitaries. Leon Sigal [4]of the Ploughshares-funded Social Science Research Council [5]commented, “It shows how a little respect from the U.S. goes a long way in the DPRK.” Sigal analyzed the language used in the video, concluding, “It goes out of its way to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative, as the old Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen song goes.”
Links
[1] https://www.ploughshares.org/file/1054
[2] http://www.heralddeparis.com/decoding-the-north-korean-media-on-bill-clinton/48510
[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt4K_9VkWgk
[4] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert/81
[5] http://www.ssrc.org/