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Story About North Korean Leader Feedin His Uncle To A Pack Of Dogs Was Fake by infonubia(m): 10:51pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
According to an article on BBC, the Hong Kong-based newspaper Wen Wei Po story about North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un killing his uncle Jan Song Thaek and his five closest aides by feeding them to 120 hungry dogs, never happened. Apparently, it was fabricated by a blogger imposter who called himself Choi Seongho and claiming to be a North Korean newspaper editor studying in China. The real Choi Seongho, who is popular and recognized as a reporter, told BBC about the imposter who made all that story up. Funny enough, lots of major news sites (Washington Post, Daily Mail, Newyork Times, and other big boys in media) and InfoNubia reported the story. Here's the BBC article titled "A cautionary tale of dogs, imposters and North Korea Written by John Sudworth for BBC News: An anonymous blogger is a tenuous enough source for a news story. But an imposter posing as that anonymous blogger?! Source |
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