What Not to Call Kim Jong Un and Other Advice From a North Korean Minder
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Nicholas Wadhams
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Foreign journalists face constant scrutiny while in Pyongyang
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Media is covering first Workers' Party congress since 1980
At least 130 foreign journalists traveled to Pyongyang to cover the first full congress of North Korea’s
ruling party in 36 years.
For
the media, minders are a constant presence. They translate, tell
journalists where they can and can’t go, and impart the official line on
everything from relations with the U.S. to the proper way to refer to
the regime’s leaders. And they have a few pet peeves:
What to Call the Country
North
Korea is not North Korea. Rather, it is the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea, DPR Korea or DPRK. Completely out of bounds is “the
hermit kingdom”; minders say the term is deeply insulting to them
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