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North Korea's propaganda chief goes down memory hole
North Korea's propaganda chief has disappeared from public view, South Korea's spy agency said yesterday, amid a report that his name and photograph were being airbrushed out of the national record after he fell out of favour.
They should ask other propaganda agencies like Reuters...nobody uses airbrushing any more, it's all Photoshop now.
The spy agency said Jeong Ha-cheol, the propaganda secretary of the North's ruling Workers Party of Korea, had not been seen in public during the past 15 months.
The spy agency said Jeong Ha-cheol, the propaganda secretary of the North's ruling Workers Party of Korea, had not been seen in public during the past 15 months.
Mabye he's just resting.
It's a tragedy, that's what it is! The juche content of the daily dose of Songun's gone far, far down hill.
The South's Dong-A Ilbo newspaper said at the weekend that his disappearance had sparked rumours he may have fled the communist country or been purged and imprisoned.
Did they check behind the fridge?
Mr Jeong, 74, was editorial chief of the party newspaper Rodong Sinmun and chairman of state television before becoming propaganda chief in 2001.

He was once a confidant of North Korean founding leader Kim Il-sung and accompanied Kim and his successor and son Kim Jong-il on trips overseas.

"All we can confirm is that Jeong has not been spotted in public at all since October 2005," a National Intelligence Service source said.

Dong-A, quoting unnamed sources, reported that North Korean officials were going door-to-door to remove traces of Jeong from publications, without giving any reason. The paper said there were recent rumours that Jeong may have defected, or had been detained in a concentration camp as "a traitor against the party and revolution".
Posted by: gromky 2007-01-30
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