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Getting Your (Random Ass) Media Outlet Into North Korea [Field Guide]
Posted on September 11, 2008

It is not easy to get news out of the North Koreans. It took the CIA to basically break the story of Kim Jong-Il's stroke; as an expert pointed out in today's Washington Post: We don't know diddly about what is going on inside that closed country. * But it turns out Kim Jong-Il likes publicity! I know I'm an object of criticism in the world, he told Madeline Albright one time. But if I'm being talked about, I must be doing the right things. (Hey, think we've identified Spencer Pratt's PR role model??) Anyway, every year the hermit kingdom invites a few journalists to bask in its glorious ...
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