KEI's NK Couple Picture Gets Top Billing

Published September 18, 2011

The September 15 KEI-Woodrow Wilson Center program on my trip to North Korea with Charles Armstrong (Columbia University) and James Person (Wilson Center) received much Korean media attention. The program showed over a hundred photos from the group’s 4000-5000 pictures taken of daily life in Pyongyang and other citiesin North Korea. Below are links to some of the coverage. According to one of the sites, the stylish North Korean couple holding hands photo which was circulated by Yonhap News made it to the top ten news item for the day. Reading some of the netizens’ comments, some believe the picture was staged. I assure you it was not!

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/09/16/2011091601148.html

http://www.fnn.co.kr/content.asp?aid=6ae3635ab4424bc600a334c1a4052e46

http://news.hankooki.com/lpage/world/201109/h2011091512323822510.htm

http://news.nate.com/view/20110915n14467

http://news.nate.com/view/20110915n14503

http://news.nate.com/view/20110915n14382

http://news.nate.com/view/20110916n08688

http://news.nate.com/view/20110915n14343

http://news.nate.com/view/20110915n25550

http://news.nate.com/view/20110915n14782