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NBC News: Kim Jong Un's executed uncle eaten alive by 120 dogs

Eh, would have been more twisted if he had forced some political prisoners to eat him.
 
Already a thread on this bit of propaganda.
 
Might be more (or less) to this media report than it seems:

First and foremost, let's consider the source.

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Second, consider the fact that the rest of the Chinese media have not touched this story in the almost-month since it came out.

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Third, South Korea's media have also not touched the story.

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Fourth, the time lapse: this story has been around for almost a month, and it's not been anywhere near confirmed.

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Fifth, the predominant story of what happened is much more plausible.

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But all of this raises the question: why are so many people – and so many major U.S. media outlets – still willing to treat this implausible story as plausible? This seems to be a problem particular to stories out of North Korea, about which almost any story is treated as broadly credible, no matter how outlandish or thinly sourced. There's no other country to which we bring such a high degree of gullibility. [....]
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