NK News explained

NK News
Commercial:Yes
Type:News website
Registration:Optional
Language:English
Owner:NK Consulting, Inc.
Ceo:Chad O’Carroll
Launch Date:2011
Current Status:Active

NK News is an American subscription-based news website that provides stories and analysis about North Korea. Established in 2011, it is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with reporters in Washington, D.C., and London.[1] Reporting is based on information collected from in-country sources, recently returned western visitors to North Korea, stories filed by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), interviews with defectors, and reports published by NGOs and western governments. The site's founder and Managing Director is Chad O'Carroll, a former employee of the German Marshall Fund, who has written on North Korea and North Korea issues for The Daily Telegraph.[2] [3]

Regular features

In 2015, NK News held a Kickstarter fundraising drive to pay to send an investigative journalist to the China–North Korea border. The reporter is expected to provide regular dispatches from the region over the coming months.

Subscription

NK News' sister platform, NK Pro, goes beyond the function of a news outlet and also provides subscription-based data analysis tools designed for use by experts and analysts in public and private sector research and analysis postings. These tools include the North Korea Leadership Tracker, the North Korea Ship Tracker, the North Korea Aviation Tracker, Leading Indicators, and KCNA Watch.[7] KCNA Watch, however, has been criticized for providing incomplete archives of North Korean websites in comparison to those of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and web caches of various search engines.[8]

Media coverage

NK News gained international headlines in November 2012 for its "North Korean Leadership Tracker," which presents a graphic visualization of every event Kim Jong-il and his son Kim Jong-un have attended since 1994.[9] [10] The following year, NK News was credited with breaking news of a purported North Korean "strike plan" against U.S. targets, based on analysis of a photo published by North Korean media,[11] and the site was subsequently named by KTXL news anchor Paul Robins as his "pick of the day."[12]

Other scoops include the identification of Kim Jong-un's US$7 million yacht[13] and images proving the date of the 2014 Pyongyang apartment collapse.[14] NK News stories have been cited by USA Today,[15] Österreich, Business Insider, and others.

Since 2014, NK News also operates a content syndication agreement with The Guardian, with various articles being published on The Guardian NK website.

Controversies

In early 2014, NK News was partially blocked by the government of South Korea, ostensibly for violating the nation's National Security Law, a censorship regulation that prohibits some reports originating from North Korea.[16]

In November 2014, NK News published a series of accusations by the former Associated Press stringer Nate Thayer, suggesting that the AP bureau in Pyongyang had signed secret agreements with the North Korean government that compromised its journalistic independence and integrity.[17] AP denied the reports, and said that Thayer was merely a disgruntled former employee.[18]

NK News has been accused of being a front for the CIA by members of the Korean Friendship Association, which is a Spain-based friendship association with North Korea.[19]

Journalists

Japanese journalist Kosuke Takahashi is a contributor to the site.[20]

Alek Sigley, an Australian national who was a graduate student of Korean literature at Kim Il-sung University, contributed articles about daily life in Pyongyang.[21] In June 2019, Sigley was detained and deported after being accused of espionage.[22] The following year, he would go on to deny these charges and claimed that his confession was coerced.[23]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About . . 19 January 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100411054401/http://nknews.org/about-2/ . 11 April 2010 .
  2. News: Chad. O'Carroll. North Korea: Kim family's former sushi chef says uncle was executed over 'pleasure brigade'. The Telegraph. 14 January 2014. 21 January 2014. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20140118020533/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10570858/North-Korea-Kim-familys-former-sushi-chef-says-uncle-was-executed-over-pleasure-brigade.html. 18 January 2014.
  3. News: Chad. O'Carroll. North Korea's invisible phone, killer dogs and other such stories – why the world is transfixed. The Telegraph. 6 January 2014. 21 January 2014. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20141008074624/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10554198/North-Koreas-invisible-phone-killer-dogs-and-other-such-stories-why-the-world-is-transfixed.html. 8 October 2014.
  4. http://www.nknews.org/2013/12/ask-a-north-korean-my-thoughts-on-jang-song-theaks-execution/ Ask a North Korean: My thoughts on Jang Song Theak’s execution | NK News – North Korea News
  5. http://www.nknews.org/category/expert-surveys/ Expert Surveys | NK News – North Korea News
  6. http://www.nknews.org/category/nk-voices/defector-survey-2014/ Defector Survey 2014 | NK News – North Korea News
  7. Web site: NK Pro Services. 2017-04-14. NK News. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20170310063726/https://signup.nknews.org/nk-pro/. 2017-03-10.
  8. Web site: On Reading North Korean Media: The Curse of the Web . Weiser . Martin . Sino-NK . 31 October 2016 . 23 July 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170907170426/http://sinonk.com/2016/10/31/on-reading-north-korean-media-the-curse-of-the-web/ . 7 September 2017 .
  9. News: Tania . Branigan . North Korean leadership visualised . The Guardian . 1 November 2012 . 21 January 2014 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20131021134632/http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/01/north-korea-leadership-visualised-interactive . 21 October 2013 .
  10. News: Evan . Ramstad . Web Site Presents North Korea Data In Visual Form . Wall Street Journal . 1 November 2012 . 21 January 2014 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20140225085721/http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2012/11/01/web-site-presents-north-korea-data-in-visual-form/ . 25 February 2014 .
  11. Web site: Photo Shows North Korea's 'U.S. Mainland Strike Plan': L.A., D.C. and Austin, Texas . gawker.com . Gawker . 19 January 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140118153221/http://gawker.com/5992872/photo-shows-north-koreas-us-mainland-strike-plan-la-dc-and-austin-texas . 18 January 2014 .
  12. Web site: The News from North Korea . ktxl.com . 3 January 2013 . KTXL-TV . 19 January 2014 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20140202092900/http://fox40.com/2013/01/03/httpwww-nknews-org/ . 2 February 2014 .
  13. http://www.nknews.org/2013/06/exclusive-fit-for-a-princess-kim-jong-uns-7m-yacht/ Exclusive: Fit for a princess: Kim Jong Un’s $7m yacht | NK News – North Korea News
  14. http://www.nknews.org/2014/07/exclusive-photos-confirm-date-of-north-korea-building-collapse/ EXCLUSIVE: Photos confirm date of North Korea building collapse | NK News – North Korea News
  15. Web site: Rodman sings happy birthday to N. Korean leader. azcentral.com . AZCentral . 19 January 2014.
  16. News: Young-jin . Kim . US-based website on NK blocked . Korea Times . 6 January 2014 . 21 January 2014 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201201402/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/01/120_149284.html . 1 February 2014 .
  17. http://www.nknews.org/2014/12/the-associated-press-in-north-korea-a-potemkin-news-bureau/ The Associated Press in North Korea: A Potemkin news bureau? | NK News – North Korea News
  18. http://www.ap.org/content/press-release/2014/statement-from-ap-on-our-north-korea-bureau Statement from AP on our North Korea bureau
  19. Web site: UK KFA protests South Korean embassy in London . Hotham . Oliver . . 11 November 2013 . 31 August 2022 . 31 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220831152821/https://www.nknews.org/2013/11/uk-kfa-protests-south-korean-embassy-in-london/ . live .
  20. Web site: Takahashi . Kosuke . About the Author – Kosuke Takahashi . . 14 March 2020 . 31 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220831152822/https://www.nknews.org/content_author/kosuke-takahashi/ . live .
  21. Web site: Sigley . Alek . About the Author – Alek Sigley . . 14 March 2020 . 31 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220831152823/https://www.nknews.org/content_author/alek-sigley/ . live .
  22. News: Alek Sigley: North Korea accuses Australian of 'spying'. BBC. 6 July 2019. 31 August 2022. 8 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201108011344/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48893523. live.
  23. Web site: Agence France-Presse . Alek Sigley describes being 'kidnapped' by North Korea and forced to admit to spying . South China Morning Post . 15 January 2020 . 14 March 2020 . 29 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200229102444/https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3046152/alek-sigley-describes-being-kidnapped-north-korea-and-forced . live .

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