Users Jeer at North Korean Death-by-Dog Story  · Global Voices
Lee Yoo Eun

A major US media outlet, NBC made one of the most sensational international reports which claimed the North Korean young dictator might have had his uncle devoured by 120 ravenous dogs. Unsurprisingly, the report went viral online, but was later found out to be a confusion caused by social media satire. Numerous jeers and jokes have been made about Western media's speculative reports on the world’s most reclusive nations. Ask A Korean blog founder via Twitter (@AskAKorean) reminded people of the fake voiceover fiasco back in the spring of 2013 when the inter-Korean tension was dangerously heightened.