# Kim Jong Un and the news coverage currently
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-and-the-news-coverage-currently/810272
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 9, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-and-the-news-coverage-currently/810272 "2018-03-09T00:30:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-and-the-news-coverage-currently/810272/21 "2018-03-14T20:48:04Z")
> [@jtur88](#):
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> There is no accounting for the news media. It feeds us what our handlers want us to think, sprinkled with just barely enough facts to give the media a plausible defense if challenged – which they never are.
In case anyone ever wonders whether Trump’s propaganda war against the news media has any traction, bookmark the post quoted above.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-and-the-news-coverage-currently/810272/22 "2018-04-25T19:26:23Z")
Could this be why he’s suspending nuclear testing?
> **[Exclusive | Nuke test mountain collapse may be why Kim Jong-un actually shut...](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2143171/north-koreas-nuclear-test-site-has-collapsed-and-may-be-why-kim-jong-un)**
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> The mountain’s collapse after a fifth blast last fall has led to the creation of a massive ‘chimney’ that could leak radioactive fallout into the air, researchers have found
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> North Korea’s mountain nuclear test site has collapsed, putting China and other nearby nations at unprecedented risk of radioactive exposure, two separate groups of Chinese scientists studying the issue have confirmed.
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### Author:  [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-and-the-news-coverage-currently/810272/23 "2018-04-25T19:52:05Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> Could this be why he’s suspending nuclear testing?
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> [Exclusive | North Korea’s nuclear test site has collapsed ... and that may be why Kim Jong-un suspended tests | South China Morning Post](http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2143171/north-koreas-nuclear-test-site-has-collapsed-and-may-be-why-kim-jong-un)
Wow. I heard an interview on NPR yesterday (I think) where an analyst said something like “You can only do so many tests under a mountain before it collapses. Kim might be stopping testing because the site is unstable.” I guess she was right! :eek:
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