{"id":42223,"date":"2019-09-22T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=42223"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:00:48","slug":"north-korea-black-hole-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-black-hole-information\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s dismal level of press freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Wednesday, September 18, President Moon Jae-in met with Christophe Deloire, the secretary-general of Paris-based non-profit Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to publicly announce the South Korean government\u2019s endorsement of the organization\u2019s nascent Information and Democracy Commission. They were also joined by Cedric Alviani, director of RSF&#8217;s East Asia bureau, and Jung Kyu Sung, head of the Journalists Association of Korea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a press briefing following his meeting with Moon, Deloire praised the progress that South Korea had made with regards to press freedom and emphasized the important role he envisioned the country playing on the global stage as the currently highest ranking Asian country in RSF\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/ranking\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2019 World Press Freedom Index<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Deloire described how democracies are in danger due to the \u201cinformation chaos\u201d and \u201cinformation jungle\u201d of today\u2019s media landscape, which has been defined by the competition between various types of content, including propaganda, advertising, journalism, vested interests, rumors. He noted that competition between these different kinds of content tends to take advantage of misinformation and so-called &#8220;fake news.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>North Korea a &#8220;black hole for information&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While South Korea is ranked 41st on RSF\u2019s 2019 World Press Freedom Index, its neighbor North Korea occupies a much less lofty position on the same list \u2014 179th out of 180 countries (Turkmenistan is the only country to rank lower than North Korea on the index). In response to a question about this stark contrast between the two Koreas and the ongoing infringement of the North Korean people\u2019s right to freedom of information and expression, the RSF secretary-general stressed that the issue of bolstering these freedoms is not the same in democratic and authoritarian societies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RSF representatives highlighted the challenges unique to seeking to improve the information and media landscape in a country like North Korea. Deloire described North Korea as a \u201cblack hole for information,\u201d and Alviani drew parallels between the Chinese government\u2019s recent efforts to export a form of journalism that is in effect state propaganda and the North Korean government\u2019s own propagandist strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In RSF&#8217;s explanation about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/north-korea\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea\u2019s ranking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the index, the organization cites the regime\u2019s ironclad control over communication and the use of political prison camps as a punishment for consuming foreign media as mechanisms by which its citizens are confined to a \u201cstate of ignorance.\u201d The only source of news permitted by the regime is provided by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Daily NK has long highlighted the lack of press freedom in North Korea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/press-freedom-index-puts-north-kor\/\">citing information<\/a> from RSF, along with other data on North Korea&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/report-nk-remains-most-oppressive\/\">media environment<\/a> produced by Freedom House. Unification Media Group (UMG) recently released a report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/75-of-defectors-in-survey-witnessed-someone-being-punished-for-watching-foreign-media-in-north-korea\/\">detailing the shifting media landscape<\/a> in North Korea. The report highlighted the fact that North Koreans are accessing more and more foreign information despite intensifying crackdowns by the state, which punishes those distributing or even watching foreign media by sending them to forced labor camps.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the World Press Freedom Index<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RSF\u2019s index is a ranking of the degree of freedom afforded to journalists in different countries around the world. The index used both qualitative data and quantitative data. Qualitative data includes information sourced from media professionals, lawyers, and sociologists and focuses on the factors such as pluralism, media independence, the information environment and self-censorship, impact of the legislative framework, transparency, and quality of infrastructure. Quantitative data focuses on tallying the number of abuses and violence committed against media actors. The qualitative and quantitative data are then aggregated and each country is ranked according to the overall score they receive.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@gmail.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, September 18, President Moon Jae-in met with Christophe Deloire, the secretary-general of Paris-based non-profit Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to publicly announce the South Korean government\u2019s endorsement of the organization\u2019s nascent Information and Democracy Commission. 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