So is the AP going to have to be "fair and balanced" in their reporting on open air human meat markets or be thrown back out of the country?

Trying to gather and report news in Best Korea? That sounds like a depressing and frustrating assignment.

What, or who, will they eat?

Sharks get jets.

mexican bathtub cheese: What, or who, will they eat?

You can get food in the capital. It's everywhere else that's problematic.

Oh, and disabled people aren't allowed in Pyongyang. How nice.

"Beyond this door lies a path to vastly larger understanding and cultural enrichment for millions around the world," Curley said.

For some reason, this line is about as credible as the Iraqi Information Minister was. Does anyone really believe that the AP sets up camp right in the heart of the propaganda machine AND will be allowed any kind of journalistic freedom?

jets + sharks...

Hmmm...

JERKS!

dready zim: jets + sharks...

Hmmm...

JERKS!

No. Sharts

Tiiba: [images.t-nation.com image 550x383]

Sharks get jets.

Is that Valdimir Putin on an Iranian shark?

This will last till they say something Dear Leader don't like.

stuffy: This will last till they say something Dear Leader don't like.

Like what? Telling him that he's dead?

Maybe this is a good thing?

Also, the other day the new leaders name had this spelling "Eon"?

What could possibly go right.

I'm sure the way it works is this: Each of the AP's people will be followed by a cadre of 4 'reporters' from the offical gov't new agency, and they will be taken to see exactly what the gov't wants 'em to see.

No gasoline, no transportation, no phones, no cell phones and no flights to free countries? Sounds like IDEAL working conditions for a journalist eh?

N Korea's capital city is named after a cartoon sound effect:
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"Regardless of whether you were born in Pyongyang or Pennsylvania, you are aware of the bridge being created today."

If you're going to do the old, tired cliche of linking far-apart place names that begin with the same letter, you should do like for like to avoid being thought of as a complete doofus. Pyongyang or Pittsburgh? Pyongyang or Punxsutawney? I'm sure there's plenty more.

praxis44241: "Beyond this door lies a path to vastly larger understanding and cultural enrichment for millions around the world," Curley said.

For some reason, this line is about as credible as the Iraqi Information Minister was. Does anyone really believe that the AP sets up camp right in the heart of the propaganda machine AND will be allowed any kind of journalistic freedom?


This. For the sake of being able to claim exclusive "news" access (in qoutes, of course, because all they'll really be able to do is pass on what Pyongyang feeds them), they're willing to be a party to North Korea's propaganda machine.

Don't hold your breath waiting for AP staff to secretly take candid shots when they think their minders aren't looking, and then perilously smuggle them out (as a handful of other journalists have risked doing); it's unlikely that the AP will want to jeopardize.the ongoing cozy arrangement.

They'll get along fine, just like CNN did with Saddam Hussein.

/and for the same reason
//who better to train the next generation of Baghdad Bobs?