The 2018 Winter Olympic Games officially opened on Friday in PyeongChang, South Korea. In attendance were several world leaders, including Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and US Vice President Mike Pence. But the most surprising world leader in attendance was undoubtedly North Korea’s Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the country’s brutal dictator, Kim Jong-un.
What was perhaps just as surprising as Kim Yo-jong’s attendance at the opening ceremony was the way several US news outlets’ covered her presence there.
CNN seemed to give a glowing review of Kim Yo-jong:
“If ‘diplomatic dance’ were an event at the Winter Olympics, Kim Jong Un’s younger sister would be favored to win gold. With a smile, a handshake and a warm message in South Korea’s presidential guest book, Kim Yo Jong has struck a chord with the public just one day into the PyeongChang Games.”
The New York Times even went so far as to say that Kim Yo-jong was a better force of diplomacy than Mike Pence:
“Flashing a sphinx-like smile and without ever speaking in public, Ms. Kim managed to outflank Mr. Trump’s envoy to the Olympics, Vice President Mike Pence, in the game of diplomatic image-making.”
The backlash against these glowing representations of Kim Yo-jong were swift. Other news organizations and private citizens voiced their concerns…
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