Business Insider: A New York Times columnist went to North Korea, and said he's never seen so much anti-American propaganda there
The threat of war between the United States and North Korea, exacerbated by intensifying rhetoric between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is palpable on the streets of Pyongyang.
That is the case according to Nicholas Kristof, a veteran New York Times columnist who recently visited North Korea's capital city after spending almost five years to get a visa.
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WNU Editor: Growing up in the former Soviet Union I have seen this anti-American propaganda first hand .... especially when the U.S. deployed cruise and Pershing missiles in West Germany in the early 1980s. But in the case of North Korea the situation is different because North Korea is hurting. Sanctions, not being able to rely on China or Russia for political support, a U.S. President who is not going to back down, South Korea and Japan who are also not backing down and who have made it known that they would favor regime change in Pyongyang .... North Korea is now out of options, coupled with a growing realization that it could no longer intimidate and gain concessions from its neighbors. So the default situation for North Korea is to wrap-up the propaganda machine .... and wrapping it up is what they are doing.
