North Korea slams CNN
27/11/2005 - 14:35:56North Korea lashed out at US-based TV news network CNN for airing footage purporting to show a public execution, accusing it of being part of a US government-organised slander campaign.
Earlier this month, CNN aired a documentary with footage defectors claimed to have smuggled out of the North, including a public execution of a person who had helped someone defect to China.
The network had said North Korea declined to immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a commentary by its official Korean Central News Agency, the North said the footage was “full of sheer lies” and accused CNN of airing the tape at the instigation of the US government as part of an alleged psychological campaign to overthrow the regime.
