Why the media gets it wrong when it comes to North Korea: Cases of ‘dead’ North Koreans in the Kim Jong-un era

@article{Seo2022WhyTM,
  title={Why the media gets it wrong when it comes to North Korea: Cases of ‘dead’ North Koreans in the Kim Jong-un era},
  author={Soomin Seo},
  journal={Journalism},
  year={2022},
  volume={24},
  pages={1899 - 1918},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:249327054}
}
  • Soomin Seo
  • Published in Journalism 2 June 2022
  • Political Science, Sociology
  • Journalism
Journalists are more capable than ever of covering places they cannot visit in person. The same news environment that makes such reporting possible, however, can also facilitate a global cascade of… 
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