U.S. Media Fall For Kim Jong Un Rumor
From U.S. Government Financed Propaganda Outlet
By Moon Of
Alabama
April 22, 2020
"Information
Clearing House"
- U.S. media went crazy today over a rumor from South
Korea which said that the North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un was near to death:
CNN
Breaking News @cnnbrk -
1:49 UTC · Apr 21, 2020
US is monitoring intelligence that North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un is in grave danger after surgery,
according to a US official
https://cnn.it/2KkCVph
The New
York Times @nytimes -
4:00 UTC · Apr 21, 2020
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, is receiving
treatment after undergoing a cardiovascular
procedure earlier this month, a South Korean media
report said, amid speculation over Kim’s health
following his absence from a key anniversary event
https://nyti.ms/2RW1GMN
What the
CNN, NBC News and the NY Times
did not say is that the 'South Korean media report' over
grave illness of Kim Jong Un, on which their reporting
was based, came from the Daily NK website and
was itself based on a single anonymous source allegedly
from North Korea.
The South
Korean and the Chinese government have both
rejected the reports:
Two South
Korean government officials rejected an earlier CNN
report citing an unnamed U.S. official saying
Washington was “monitoring intelligence” that Kim
was in grave danger after surgery, but they did not
elaborate on whether Kim had undergone surgery. The
presidential Blue House said there were no unusual
signs coming from North Korea.
...
An official at the Chinese Communist Party’s
International Liaison Department, which deals with
North Korea, told Reuters the source did not believe
Kim was critically ill. China is North Korea’s only
major ally.
Chinese
foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Beijing
was aware of reports about the health of Kim, but
said it does not know their source, without
commenting on whether it has any information about
the situation.
The report was
bad for the South Korean markets:
South Korean
shares exposed to North Korea tumbled and the Korean
won fell on the reports. The won traded down more
than 1% against the dollar even as South Korean
government sources said Kim was not gravely ill.
The
DailyNK has since published
a correction. It now
says that Kim might have had a heart problem but is
recovering well. The NBC News correspondent
Katy Tur
deleted her tweet out
of a laughable 'abundance of caution'.
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When they
published the sensational claims none of the western
reports mentioned that the DailyNK is not a
regular news outlet. It is a website in Seoul which is
run by defectors from North Korea. It has for years been
financed by the U.S. government through the National
Endowment for Democracy which is a CIA offshot. From the
NED's 2018 grant report:
The Daily NK -
$270,000
To raise
awareness and understanding of the conditions in
North Korea by disseminating accurate, timely, and
relevant news and information about the country. The
project will produce an online newspaper serving
readers in South Korea and the international
community, and will provide journalism training to
North Koreans working as citizen journalists as well
as ongoing professional development for its
regionally-based correspondents and stringer
reporters.
The DailyNK
is a run of the mill U.S. propaganda organization which
prepares for a U.S. 'regime change' operation in North
Korea.
Earlier
records show that the DailyNK has received NED
money since at least 2006. Between 2016 and 2019 it
received a total of
$1,120,000.
When U.S.
officials claimed they were 'monitoring intelligence'
about Kim Jong Un's health they meant that they were
reading the fake news the people at the desk next to
them just had produced.
Having
been caught falling for a CIA rumor mill report the
New York Times engaged in a Trump like move and
blamed North Korea for its false reporting:
Speculation Over Kim Jong-un’s Health Is Fueled by North
Korea’s Own Secrecy.
There
might be malicious intent behind the initiation of
today's rumor. South Korean President Moon Jae-in is not
well liked by U.S. North Korea hawks. Last week Moon's
ruling party
won an absolute majority
in the parliamentary elections. The landslide win came
after much success during the recent efforts to contain
the novel coronavirus in South Korea.
There is a
silent war between the Trump administration, represented
by the hawkish U.S. ambassador in Seoul Harry Harris,
and the Moon government.
Trump is
demanding that South Korea pay $5 billion per year for
the stationing of U.S. occupation troops in the country.
That is five times more than South Korea currently pays.
South Korea has rejected such a hefty increase and the
U.S. furloughed 5,000 South Korean workers who were
employed on its bases. The negotiations
have since stalled.
Ambassador Harris has engaged in sabotage of South
Korean policies. Here is just one example. The country
recently acquired a Global Hawk reconnaissance drone but
wanted to keep that a secret. Despite urgent requests
for secrecy from the Moon government Harris
tweeted about the
arrival of the drone:
US Ambassador
Harry Harris disclosed the delivery of the Global
Hawk (RQ-4), a US surveillance asset, to the South
Korean military and shared a photograph of it
despite efforts by South Korean military officials
to dissuade him, it has been learned. Observers
criticized his unilateral decision to disclose
information about his host country’s military in
defiance of its wishes as overstepping his authority
as a diplomatic representative.
...
Many in and around the military viewed Harris’s
tweet as “irregular.”
“The Global
Hawk is being introduced to South Korea through
Foreign Military Sales (FMS) procedures supervised
by the US government, but it is unquestionably a
surveillance asset of the South Korean Air Force,
not the US military,” said one military official.
“As a
former commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command,
Ambassador Harris may be quite interested in
military issues, but it crosses a line for him to
unilaterally disclose South Korean military
information,” the official continued.
It would not be
beyond Harris to launch rumors about North Korea's
leader if only to throw the South Korean government off
balance.
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