North Korea Wants ROK Government to Silence Conservative Media

I guess we will see how the South Korea government responds to this demand in order to ensure North Korean participation during the upcoming Winter Olympics:

The North Korean journalists union on Monday called on South Korea to “hold tight control” of its conservative media, warning that negative reports could scupper ongoing DPRK-ROK dialogue.

The commentary, carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), is written under the name of Kim Chol Guk, department director of the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea.

Kim said South Korea’s conservative media had “astounded the world” by publishing “disgusting slander which deride and insult the sincerity of the fellow countrymen.”

The South Korean government must place controls over conservative media and should be aware that they “may mess up the great event of the nation,” his article said.

“Tongue may bring calamity and miswritten pen may become a sword beheading oneself,” an English language version of the article reads.

“The South Korean authorities may find the wedding ceremony turning into a mourning ceremony if they fail to hold tight control of media and of their own tongue.”

Conservative South Korean outlets have allegedly described the Pyongyang’s “proposal and sincere efforts for inter-Korean talks as double-dealing tactics,” the article said, without specifying which outlets it was referring to.

“They even admonished the authorities to be vigilant against ‘the north’s trick to impair the South Korea-U.S. alliance.’” [NK News]

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