Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Ben Norton - US Media Spreads False Claims About Purging of North Korean Official

Kevin Kavanagh wrote in the Sun yesterday:

'Forget his age, Jeremy Corbyn is unfit to be PM because he prizes the interests of Britain’s enemies above our own' 

The article then went on to say that Kim Jung-on had executed one of his senior officials for failing at the arms negotiations with Trump. So, this is as ruthless as the Queen in Alice in Wonderland who flippantly cuts off the heads of anyone she doesn't like. The dark state, the enemy - those bad commies!

Well, I did search on this story and it was all over the internet with the whole of the Western media repeating the claim, but there's a problem, it isn't true. The MSM has been putting out fake news again.

Anyway, the truth is that Jeremy Corbyn puts the British people's interests above those of the aristocracy, who are traitors to this country, who over the centuries have sent millions of British men to their deaths in their wars to aquire other countries resources, and this still goes on today.

The corporate media’s editorial standards for reporting on official enemies of the U.S., especially North Korea, are as low as ever. Blatantly false stories are regularly circulated by leading news outlets without any kind of accountability.

In the latest example, virtually every major media outlet reported that a senior North Korean official named Kim Yong-chol was supposedly forced into a “labor camp,” as part of a larger deadly “purge.”

Two days later, that same official turned up alive at a public art performance, seated next to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Bloomberg kicked off the frenzy on May 30 by publishing a report claiming, “North Korea executed its former top nuclear envoy to the U.S. and four other foreign ministry officials in March after a failed summit between Kim and Donald Trump.”

Bloomberg’s source was South Korea’s far-right newspaper Chosun Ilbo, which has a long history of fabricating stories about North Korea. Chosen Ilbo’s story was based on a single unidentified source.

That is to say, the false report obediently echoed by the Western press corps was based entirely on the claims of one unnamed person.

This obvious lack of evidence did not stop credulous reporters from jumping on the sensationalist propaganda. The story was circulated by The New York TimesReutersThe Wall Street JournalThe Hill, The Daily BeastFox News, CNBCTIME, ABC News, The Financial TimesThe TelegraphVICE NewsRolling StoneThe Independent, The Washington Times, The New York Post, HuffPostFrance 24The Japan Times, HaaretzThe Times of IsraelDemocracy Now, the U.S. government’s Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and many more.

Corsortium News 

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