Draft:Bodo (News programme)
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Bodo (보도, 'News' or 'Report') is a daily North Korean news bulletin that is broadcast by Korean Central Television.
Content
[edit]It serves as one of the main propaganda outlets of the Workers’ Party of Korea and strictly follows the party line (politics), and is seen as a projector of the state ideology of Juche.
The daily happenings of Kim Jong Un take the top priority on the programme, preceding all other stories. Other stories featuring the Korean People’s Army and the economy of North Korea also have priority. These typically portray successful achievements and developments.
Weather reports are aired from the KCTV studio near Mount Paektu, supposed mythological birthplace of the second North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il.
The newscasts known for their strong ideological bias and tend to shine a bad light on the Western World, particularly the United States, Japan and South Korea, which are frequently depicted as decaying.
However, with allies such as China and Russia, they are typically treated as friendly nations, but this may vary based on diplomatic relations.
Presentation style
[edit]North Korean newscasts have been known to be very melodramatic. For example, during the Death of Kim Il Sung and the death of Kim Jong Il, Ri Chun-hee was visibly weeping while announcing their deaths.
Propaganda newscasts are not unique to North Korea, and were common across communist states.
In 2012, following equipment from China Central Television, KCTV introduced a new, modernised set for its bulletins, and the updated set featured a new anchor desk and a video backdrop.
Notable Newscasters
[edit]- Ri Chun-hee, active 1971- present, often seen in her pink Choson-ot, thus giving her the nickname “Pink Lady”.
Other examples of newscasts from communist and formerly communist countries
[edit]- Aktuelle Kamera in East Germany
- Aktuaalne kaamera in Soviet Estonia and present day Estonia, but without the propaganda element, depoliticised.
- Dziennik Telewizyjny in the People’s Republic of Poland, exists today in Poland as 19.30, depoliticised.
- Telejurnal in Socialist Romania, and present day Romania, but without the propaganda element, depoliticised.
- Vremya, in the USSR and Soviet Russia, still exists today in modern Russia.
See also
[edit]- Korean Central Television
- Politics of North Korea
- Censorship in North Korea
- Propaganda in North Korea
References
[edit]1. Armstrong, Charles K. The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950. Cornell University Press, 2003. 2. Lankov, Andrei. “North Korea’s State Media: Controlled, Boring, and Sometimes Strange.” NK News, 2016. 3. , Barbara. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. Spiegel & Grau, 2009. 4. “Inside the North Korean Propaganda Machine.” The Guardian, 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/02/-sp-inside-north-korea-propaganda-machine 5. “Ri Chun-hee: North Korea's Iconic Newsreader.” BBC News, 2017. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40534215 6. Choe Sang-Hun. “Reading North Korea’s Face on TV.” The New York Times, 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/world/asia/ri-chun-hee-north-korean-news-anchor.html 7. “North Korean State TV Gets Makeover with Chinese Help.” NK News, 2012. https://www.nknews.org/2012/09/kctv-new-look/
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