The Freedom of Speech and of The Press Violation in North Korean Media

While there isn’t much in North Korean media, the media that is existent is mostly false statements about the US and false pictures of nuclear destruction of United States cities by North Korean Nukes. North Korean news anchors say things like an upcoming conflict will leave Washington in a “Sea of Fire” There are also websites by communists that state they are waiting to demolish the United States to ashes. One North Korean television showed a video of a nuclear attack on the White House that was not real. The announcer talks about how “the American imperialists and the South Korean traitors … will face the most absurd and painful self-destruction, digging their own tombs with their bare hands.” There is propaganda where the video ends with a bunch of graves overlaid on to an American flag.

A month later, as a part of the day of the sun which is a holiday celebrated by North Koreans, once a North Korean TV broadcasted a military concert in front of a huge screen that happened to show a missile attack on San Francisco. North Koreans imagery and words have a very numbing sameness about them but the messages are monitored closely by the US for any changes. . A second U.S. official said that, if the North Koreans stop talking about turning South Korea into a “sea of fire” and threaten things that are even more horrific, then the entire world, the government and the intelligence community need to take note.

Citizens of North Korea are now in the year 103. This different calendar shows the years since Kim Il Sung was born, and was introduced in 1997 by son Kim Jong-Il, and his own birth as people say, took place on Mount Paektu under a double rainbow at the same time a new star appeared in the sky. It doesn’t stop there, back in 1994, news reporters claimed that Kim Jong-Il broke a world record at golf, shooting a 38-under par round on the state’s only course where he was seen achieving 11 hole-in-ones.

This was also the first time he had ever picked up a set of clubs in his entire life. Kim Jong-Un allegedly has now scaled North Korea’s biggest mountain on his own, making even fellow despot Putin look like a sissy. The leader climbed the 2,744m active volcano Mt. Paektu to meet with 100 soldiers at the summit for a photoshoot. North Korea’s state-ran news website KCNA heralded the invention of a generation, waterproof liquid. Yes, you read that right. Along with its oxymoronic qualities, the invention’s primary use was apparently to act as a floor sealant and has since been used in the construction of apartment buildings across its capital of Pyongyang. the country’s Chosun Central Television chancel pinpointed China as the happiest place to live on Earth, awarding them 100 out of 100 points, and humbly demoting themselves to second on 98 points. Naturally, they were closely followed by Cuba, Iran and Venezuela. As a totalitarian state, North Korean media is entirely produced and controlled by the State – and by its ruling Workers” Party of Korea, which effectively controls all power in the country.Without prevalent access to the internet (North Korea instead offers a censored intranet, the “Kwangmyong’) the most exposure that any person within the republic can expect is through the more established means like TV, radio and newspapers.

Though the Constitution of North Korea guarantees freedom of speech and of the press, both rights are conditional on any expression being supportive of the government – though with all journalists being members of Kim’s Workers” Party, this isn’t likely to ever pose many problems. Moreover, there is only “source” for any news stories – the Korean Central News Agency, which provides a series of daily press statements governing the news agenda for that day. The government uses the newspaper to try to show an ideal country that almost based on pure jealousy. The US is the main target, regularly sending the image the media is showing that an attack from the “imperialist” US is in the near future– but always reassuring the public that North Korea’s own military might will offer easy retaliation. TV broadcasts which only begin every evening after 5pm, when the public has finished its day’s work, unless there is emergency news such as Kim Jong Il’s death have many messages portraying the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as an paradise that everyone would want to be apart of.