Every time an article comes out about North Korea's crazy KCNA or Korean Central News Agency, they usually include the fact that newswires from KCNA are routinely blocked from display on TV or the internet in the supposedly democratic South Korea. When you consider how patently ridiculous every word that comes from the KCNA actually is; it is remarkable that any government would be concerned about KCNA's content. This is the news agency that said Hillary Clinton, "Sometimes...looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping." If you wanted to parody a soviet era communist news agency in a screenplay, you could do no better than the actual content that comes from the KCNA. So why should a democracy like South Korea actually care about blocking content from the North?
We must really take our press freedoms for granted here in America. Just because you live in a democracy does not mean you have freedom of the press, or any other freedom for that matter.
Source:
cnn.com
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