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The Times features hostile North Korean coverage. It's done so for decades. It's biased and irresponsible. Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were vilified. So is Kim Jong Un. An April 13 report called him "young and defiant."
Nonexistent threats are headlined. Truth is turned on its head. Readers are systematically misinformed. They're lied to. It's longstanding Times policy. News most fit to print is omitted.
On April 12, The Times headlined "In Focus: North Korea's Nuclear Threats."
"What exactly is North Korea threatening to do," it asked? It "issu(es) near-daily threats against the United States and South Korea, and sometimes at United States forces in the Pacific."
Irresponsibly deploying them there goes unmentioned. America's imperial agenda isn't discussed. Its global footprint gets short shrift. Its permanent war agenda isn't explained.
Former US diplomat Charles Freeman commented earlier on Washington's war on terror. "How can we win," he asked? America's "enem(ies are) so ill-understood that we must invent a nonexistent ideology" for justification, he said.
Not according to Times editors. Iran is Exhibit A. So is North Korea. They're the two remaining components of Bush's "axis of evil."
Times editors make sure readers don't forget. "In one of the boldest warnings," they claimed, "the North said it could carry out pre-emptive nuclear strikes against the United States.""(W)hether nuclear-tipped or not, (s)ome of its missiles could hit South Korea or Japan and American forces there"."
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