A journalist who spent time inside North Korea has revealed the hardest part about staying under the radar with authorities on her tail.
In 2011, Lee became the first US reporter granted extensive access on the ground in North Korea, and in January 2012 opened Associated Press’ Pyongyang bureau.
“They think of journalism very differently. For them. Journalists are propagandists. And so that‘s hard for them to understand how we do journalism. And so they see us as possible spies for our governments. And so they want to have a minder with journalists at all times.” “North Korea was definitely the most challenging assignment on so many levels, not just because of the lack of access, it‘s difficult even to get a visa into the country,” she continued.
She says she spent many hours watching the state’s education system, learning all about the myths young North Koreans are exposed to every day. She says the deification of the Kim family is consistently pushed in classrooms, revealing children are taught the late leader Kim Jong Il was born on a “sacred mountain” where the “skies cracked open with double rainbows”.
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