Morgan Censored: What “Freedom of Speech” Looks Like in the West-An article by the Chairman of the People’s Korea Initiative

A few days ago, on the “Piers Morgan Uncensored” channel (or, more accurately, “Piers Morgan Censored”), Piers Morgan hosted Dr Dermot Hudson, Chairman of the Korean Friendship Association UK, a great friend of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and of our Initiative. The interview provided us, friends of People’s Korea, with yet another textbook example of what we have to contend with in the Western media landscape: a barrage of lies and provocations served up by people with malicious intentions, a category to which Morgan most certainly belongs.

Morgan was not interested in having a discussion. He came to act out a script he had prepared before the cameras even started rolling. His “questions” were, in fact, pre-packaged assertions dressed up with question marks, deliberately framed to leave his guest no room for any substantive discussion. The entire exchange was built around stereotypes, with the legendary “twenty permitted hairstyles” leading the way. Anyone with even a basic understanding of the world around them knows that such fabrications are deliberately manufactured and circulated by anti-Korean, American and, more broadly, Western media outlets to demonise the DPRK. Rather than challenging these myths, Morgan made them the foundation of his “interview”.

As if that were not enough, the presenter attempted to lecture and patronise a man who has visited the DPRK twenty times and is an undisputed authority on the country. Where does this arrogance come from? Certainly not from his own knowledge, as Morgan demonstrated no such knowledge in the studio. Instead, we heard the mechanical repetition of tabloid headlines on which he has built his career. He looked pathetic, like a little yapping dog.

Dr Hudson, meanwhile, demonstrated absolute class. He remained courteous towards the viewers and showed the presenter a degree of patience he had done nothing to deserve. It is precisely this contrast between a calm, knowledgeable guest and a nervous presenter that Morgan presumably finds so difficult to tolerate. We would not be surprised if this also explained why comments supporting Dr Hudson beneath the interview are being deleted. This is what an “uncensored” programme looks like: inconvenient voices disappear as soon as they no longer fit the host’s narrative.

We, the People’s Korea Initiative, which, together with KFA UK, forms part of the European Regional Committee For Friendship with the Korean People, fully support the work of Dr Dermot Hudson.