Journalists. A euphemism for spies. When two individuals of American religion are caught sneaking across the North Korean border, they are maintained by the press to be journalists. And in many ways they are. They record the life of the miserable North Koreans, interview them, take pictures and publish it back to their audience in the US. However their audience isn’t the same audience that would be watching Oprah or Spike TV, their audience is a group of government analysts and executives in Virginia.
The tried and true cover story for spies is journalism, or movie crew. It’s a rare excuse to take pictures and ask penetrating questions. When journalists followed a powerful German motor sport executive to his kinky adult romper room and filmed him getting spanked we were led to believe that the MI6 agent spanking him was some sort of Nazi. When journalists interviewing an Afghani strongman blew him to bits days before September 11 2001 we didn’t catch the significance of it. The great British BBC responsible for concerted propaganda campaigns against both local and foreign audiences during World War 2. Storys are routinely planted in reputable newspapers by intelligence and security agents many of them with permanent press credentials and jobs. This is nothing new or outlandish. Now journalists from little know Current TV are caught trying to get a scoop on the last remaining communist stronghold on earth by secretively sneaking across the border into North Korea . The guards knew something was wrong because Korea’s people are sneaking in the opposite direction into China! Masopher is neither surprised nor particularly disturbed. Deals will be cut and North Korea will show ”benevolence” to the “journalists”.
