Link: Korean Central News Agency
The Associated Press collaborated with North Korea’s state media outlet (KCNA) for a photo exhibition in New York City that opened last month. I tracked down the video on the KCNA page here: http://www.kcna.kp/kcnadata/graphics/emedia.flv
Here’s some information on the Media of North Korea page at wikipedia:
Kim Jong-il’s book, Guidance for Journalists, advises that “newspapers carry articles in which they unfailingly hold the president in high esteem, adore him and praise him as the great revolutionary leader”.[5] Media reports in North Korea are often one-sided and exaggerated, playing “little or no role in gathering and disseminating vital information true to facts” and providing propaganda for the regime.[6]
Wikipedia page on KCNA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Central_News_Agency
Photo by KCNA
Here’s the AP story on the exhibit:
Link: N.Y. show captures snapshots of North Korean life (SFGate)
“Windows on North Korea: Photographs From the DPRK,” is a joint exhibition by the Associated Press and the state-run Korean Central News Agency, and features a mix of archival and contemporary images.
It’s an appropriate question to ask— why is the Associated Press putting its work alongside that of the KCNA, an unethical “news outlet” run by a government who keeps a reported 150,000 to 200,000 of its own starving citizens in prison labor camps?