North Korea Reporting: Riddled With Errors, Even in Neighboring South Korea

It was a riveting story. On Aug 29, 2013, South Korea’s biggest newspaper Chosun Ilbo ran what it claimed was an exclusive: [http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/08/29/2013082900247.html] Hyon Song-wol, a singer and rumored ex-lover of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, had been executed for starring in and selling pornographic videos. That report went viral, picked up by numerous outlets, both domestic and abroad. But she appeared again on North Korea’s state television nine months la