Name: How North Korea's Media Is Covering the Summit | NYT News
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If you switched on the television in the U.S. this week,

“... we're continuing our breaking coverage ahead

of President Trump and Kim Jong-un's high-stakes summit ...”

“... an unprecedented nuclear summit with

“The Sunday broadcast was much the same

So, documentaries about the life of one of the Kims,

revolutionary movies — one of the programs

And there were children's shows as well.”

“Normally North Koreans don't see anything in real time

about any foreign excursion by the supreme leader.

There's normally nothing until after he has come back

the state-run media apparatus holds all the power.

“By not reporting on things beforehand,

the North Korean government a) doesn't build expectations

and b) gets to decide that whatever happens,

But on Monday morning, North Korean state media

“We saw an unprecedented amount of North Korean media

activity about Kim Jong-un's visits in Singapore.

And in fact, the anchor, a woman named Ri Chun-hee,

a very famous anchor in North Korea, used the name

and used the the honorific form in Korean

Since Kim's conciliatory New Year's speech,

has toned down its anti-American messaging.

And so have North Korean propaganda leaflets

They had been depicting Donald Trump and U.S. allies

suddenly started taking a much less aggressive tone.

“A lot of messages about reconciliation, unification,

peace, et cetera, and there was even a Olympic-themed one

and they genuinely look like they could have been

friendlier tone in North Korea's propaganda

will translate into a shift in Kim's policies.

and having a meeting with the president of the United States —

internally in North Korea to get some tangible steps going

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How North Korea's Media Is Covering the Summit | NYT News

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