Ouch--that's gonna leave a mark!
CNN?!? A trumpeter" for the Bush Administration?
(CNSNews.com) - Angered by the broadcast of a secretly filmed public execution inside North Korea, the Stalinist state has accused the U.S.-based CNN television network of promoting Washington's "regime change" agenda.
Pyongyang also hinted at banning the network from future visits.
"We have allowed CNN in our country for news coverage several times and guaranteed the necessary conditions, but with the incident CNN has dug its own grave," North Korea's official KCNA mouthpiece charged in a weekend commentary.
"[CNN] aired a videotape which seriously misrepresented the independent and fair and aboveboard measures taken by the DPRK for enforcing laws, without confirming their truth," it said.
DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the reclusive regime's official name.
CNN earlier this month broadcast a documentary entitled "Undercover in the Secret State," showing footage reportedly smuggled out of North Korea by a defector.
In addition to scenes of a public execution by shooting, the program also showed footage depicting other abuses of human rights as well as signs of dissent inside the authoritarian state, including images of a dissident defacing a poster of Kim Jong-il.
The commentary lashed out at the network, calling it a "reptile" and a "trumpeter" for the U.S. administration.
I guess the truth hurts, doesn't it? Especially when the entire foundation of your regime, much like many of the Stalinists before you, precariously exists on a steady diet of lies.
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