A few months ago a comrade raised the issue of a BBC report on the DPRK.This used distortion and skillful manipulation of facts rather than outright blatant lying.The fact is that outright lies after a time wear thin especially on intelligent sections of the population.If you believed all the stories about starvation in the DPRK by rights there would be one living in the DPRK, indeed people would have starved to death several times over.
So the more insidious form of distorting facts is employed by the imperialist media and so called information services.For example looking at the Wikipedia I read an entry on Sariwon city which I have visited.Not too much information actually there which was disappointing but a reference to the Sariwon paedriatic hospital which they claim is the only paedriatic hospital in the region serving 16 districts and 500,000 children.Oh no shock horror !!!!Funny how the wiki manages to find detailed information but drews a blank on other aspects of life in Sariwon.Of course what the article misses out is that that Sariwon City has peoples hospitals no 1 and no 2 plus the provincial peoples hospital for the North Hwanghae province plus clinics in the suburbs and the surrounding rural areas,all of which can treat children as well adults.
In actual fact the number of children's hospitals in the DPRK increased by 3 times between 1970 and 1991. The drip drip of distorted reporting on the DPRK is a form of subtle brainwashing which unfortunately all too many leftists and progressives are affected by it.
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