Funeral of Kim Jong-il, Strength of Communism

 Tribute: A giant portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il 

was carried past mourners on the procession route.

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The death of Kim Jong-Il was caused by massive heart attack when he was travelling by train outside Pyongyang and it wasn’t just tears was captured but they also restores the picture of his funeral with Photoshop and North Korea removed films crew photos as well.

During his funeral, a well choreographed from the dictator’s funeral despite from the sorrow as thousand of street lines with ‘Dear Leader’ (Parson, 2011). North Korea is control by a ruler that wants everything goes as how he plans accordingly. Due to that, new evidence was reveal on what happen during the funeral ceremony when two comparison photos that shown how a camera crew filming was digitally erased from the original picture.

Spot the difference: On the right side, the image doctored by a North Korean news agency.
The photographers from the left side of the left image have mysteriously disappeared.

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As we can see, there was a cameraman standing behind the mourners but somehow they were not in the right picture. This is because the North Korea government want to give an impact power of a country govern by communist leader. 

There are regimes and it is especially for the used by media for propaganda reason only as been mention by Himelboin and Limor (2008). The picture on the right was released by North Korea’s official Central News Agency where the group of men have been totally vanished, mysteriously (Parson, 2011).

The truth is we can hardly see any footage outside the insular of communist dictatorship. Nevertheless the doctoring of the image is totally unthetical but somehow according to Matthew Kieren (2000:163), ‘Privacy concern certains area of our lives over which we exercise autonomous control and which it is not the business or right of others to concern themselves unless we so choose.’

Suffer little children: Girls in North Korea wail in this picture released by state media as they mourn 

the 'dear leader' who ruled the country for 14 years with an iron grip. 

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Himelboin and Limor (2008) stated that the freedom of speech is the key for any press to express their method of convey information to the public and also as a social media network. Apart from that, Christians (1997, p.16) also argued that the press is an instrument to prove the accountability of the public and public service.

News agency in North Korea cannot highlight any unsatisfactory towards the government because everything is controlled by the government. There are no chance for the people to switch to other radio stations because the government has set the dial to a permanent official government station and also a citizen of North Korea need to get permission from the Party first then later from their officer from the work place (Hwang & Rigoulot, 2001 p.2).

North Korea is a country that does not have a freedom of expression, thus it will lead a country to an unstable political and development of economy (Netto, 2002). Unlike North Korea, they have the outrageous performance in economies compared to other country.

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REFERENCES

• Christians, C & Traber, M (eds) 1997, Communications Ethics and Universal Values, Sage, Calirfonia.
• Himelboim, I. and Limor, Y., 2008, Media Perception of Freedom of the Press: A Comparative International Analysis of 242 Codes of Ethics, Journalism [Journal] vol.9 no.3, pg. 235-265.
• Hwang, C. and Rigoulot, P., 2001, The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag, Perseus Book Group, USA.
• Kieran, Matthew, 2000, The Regulatory and Ethical Framework, Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice, de Burgh, Hugo (ed.) London, Routledge, pp. 156-76
• Netto, A, 2002, Media freedon in Malaysia, Media Asia, vol. 29, no. 1, pg. 17-23. 
• Parson,C 2011, It wasnt just tears were stage-managed: Pictures show how North removed film crews from photos of Kim Jong Il's funeral, viewed 5th June 2012, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079802/Kim-Jong-Il-funeral-Pictures-North-Korea-removed-film-crews.html