People’s Daily embarrassingly gushy North Korean propaganda
China is the closest thing that North Korea has to a friend at the moment and we get that the People’s Daily is the CCP’s official mouthpiece, but they were just asking for it when reporter Zhou Ziran posted up this gushy article on the wonderful state of things in Pyongyang. Let’s just say that commenters had a field day with the fluffy piece. [ more › ]
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