All
our staff inside North Korea work under assumed names.
Any article
we provide with a byline stating a North Korean reporter
is reported by North Koreans themselves.
ASIAPRESS
North Korea reporting team is in charge of nurturing
North Korean journalists. In towns along the Sino-North
Korea border, the team gives step-by-step training
in both journalistic principles and camera skills.
In a country
like North Korea where there has never been journalism
and freedom of the press, there is less room for North
Korean reporters to exercise a journalistic approach
to their reports and stories, even though they have
a strong commitment to the principles of journalism.
In the
censored state, people have no right of access to
information. Therefore, some of the articles may contain
subjective views and unverified information.
Nevertheless,
the ASIAPRESS North Korea reporting team makes every
effort to verify their information in diverse ways.
Via direct contact with persons in China, or oral
telecommunication from inside North Korea, the team
tries to prove the facts in each and every article.
Some relevant facts are added to the article in this
process to aid understanding.
The security
and protection of reporters is the utmost priority.
Reporters
cannot always keep a notebook, text or PC data with
them.
For these
reasons, the team sometimes writes articles with a
North Korean reporterfs name on the byline, based
on oral information and telecommunication exchanges
with that reporter.
Profiles
of Rimjin-gang North Korean Reporters
(Partial
funding for North Korean reporter training is provided
by a grant from the Open Society Foundation.)
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