Influential government and media figures pointed this out via Twitter:
Speaking of stealing, Otto Warmbier was tortured & killed at the hands of the Kim regime after being accused of stealing a poster. Let’s not whitewash North Korea’s record https://t.co/ST8QwhImMD
— Alyssa Farah (@VPPressSec) February 10, 2018
If I were working for CNN I would honestly resign before writing this piece. Beyond a certain point, no job is worth sacrificing your dignity or whitewashing true evil like this. https://t.co/k2qNfoV2zD
— Jeff B. (@EsotericCD) February 10, 2018
Additional CNN critics furthermore affirmed that Kim Yo Jong’s Winter Olympics attendance does not absolve or erase the tyrannical nature of the North Korean government:
Why are people in the replies treating Kim’s sister like she’s some icon throwing shade and not the member of a family that has terrorized its people for 60 years. FFS people you can disagree with the VP…even hate him….without praising the Kims or agreeing with them. https://t.co/xTKizY9xP2
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) February 10, 2018
I may not agree with anything VP Pence stands for, but Kim’s sister is a part of a family that has brutally oppressed it’s people for decades.
— Brenda Lee (@leebren9) February 10, 2018
More on CNN’s Praise of Kim Yo Jong
The aforesaid piece alarmed many Americans on both sides of the aisle. To some people, the glorification of North Korea has seemingly followed after President Trump’s public conflicts with Kim Jong Un.
One Twitter user, Ian McKelvey, posted a series of tweets in which he highlighted the gruesome treatment of North Korean prisoners. McKelvey moreover notes that pregnant women and children are not at all given a reprieve from the government’s abuse:
Since the American leftist media is fawning all over the North Koreans, I thought I’d post some illustrations made by former prisoners who were held in North Korean prison camps. pic.twitter.com/mFttEpNo7M
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) February 11, 2018
