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“The United States possesses something like 7,000 nuclear warheads. North Korea has an estimated ten, and yet it claims that North Korea is some sort of existential threat to the United States.”
What do you do with a press corps that pauses from raising alarms about North Korea’s warmongering to raise alarms about North Korea’s peacemongering?
It’s hard to think of a better illustration of the concept of cognitive dissonance than the Washington Post unironically referring to Mike Pence as a “superhero” in an article about the dangers of propaganda.
Vox presents viewers with an array of US government-linked talking heads who insist the only options to resolve the conflict in Korea are devastating sanctions or apocalyptic war.
The reasons for North Korea’s militarization and the historical context for its conflict with the United States are seldom honestly discussed in US corporate media.
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USA Today’s sources on how “US missile defense plans” will protect you from the “N. Korean Nuke Threat” mostly have a direct financial connection to the US missile defense program.
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NPR has promoted the perspective of the US government at the expense of public understanding of US/North Korean relations. The construction of foreign “threats” benefits both a national government hungry for legitimacy—and news organizations hungry for an audience.
FAIR has noted 30 media mentions of CSIS pushing the THAAD missile system or its underlying value proposition in US media. Omitted from all these CSIS media appearances, however, is that one of CSIS’s top donors, Lockheed Martin, is THAAD’s primary contractor.
The New York Times paints a dire picture of a Trump administration forced to react to the growing and impending doom of North Korea nuclear weapons.
“Every country has a sovereign right to test its weapons capability. That’s how you know if it works or not, and that’s precisely what North Korea is doing.”
Corporate media’s cartoonish portrayal of North Korea doesn’t help as we try to understand how things came to this pass, and how to get out of it.
A key feature of reports on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is the Hypothetical Scary Nuke Map that shows an entirely hypothetical, not-yet-proven-to-have-been-built intercontinental ballistic missile hitting the US mainland.
The New York Times’ front-page story doesn’t point out how unlikely it is that North Korea has, in fact, detonated a hydrogen bomb.
“The report, if true, would starkly illustrate the brutal extent to which the young North Korean leader is going to consolidate power.” And if it isn’t true, it would starkly illustrate the low standards the Washington Post has for reporting on official enemies.
Seemingly out of nowhere, North Korea became the top news story at the beginning of April. Tensions between the United States and North Korea were on the rise after new supreme leader Kim Jong Un conducted several missile and weapons tests, beginning at the end of 2012. The threats, bluster and provocations that followed led […]
While corporate TV panics over North Korea, Tim Shorrock points out what’s missing from the story. And the Lee Fang tells us how the right is mobilizing at the state-level– they’re even creating media outlets to spread their message.
Citing anonymous officials, the New York Times reported that “no party [to an] armistice can unilaterally terminate or alter its terms.” International law expert Francis Boyle says that’s nonsense.
What is it about leftist Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa that U.S. media don’t like? Dan Beeton from the Center for Economic and Policy Research explains. And what context and history would improve our understanding of North Korea? UC Santa Cruz professor Christine Hong has some ideas.
