North Koreans have been banned from showing any sign of happiness for 11 days in order to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il.
Yahoo News outright calling the DPRK a kingdom lmao
edit: you can contact them at corrections@yahoonews.com if you want 🤷 not sure if it’s really helpful but calling the DPRK a kingdom is really taking it a step further and yahoo will probably correct it, because they didn’t use “alleged” or “de facto monarchy”, or “the country some call a monarchy”. The wording is different and important in this case.
Anticommunists have been referring to Korea as ‘the hermit kingdom’ since the 19th century. Ellen Brun and Jacques Hersh noted this in Socialist Korea.
Yahoo News outright calling the DPRK a kingdom lmao
edit: you can contact them at corrections@yahoonews.com if you want 🤷 not sure if it’s really helpful but calling the DPRK a kingdom is really taking it a step further and yahoo will probably correct it, because they didn’t use “alleged” or “de facto monarchy”, or “the country some call a monarchy”. The wording is different and important in this case.
Anticommunists have been referring to Korea as ‘the hermit kingdom’ since the 19th century. Ellen Brun and Jacques Hersh noted this in Socialist Korea.