“Journalism that carries the death penalty”

Já aqui tinha falado desta experiência, mas hoje o The Economist volta a falar dela.

São jornalistas norte-coreanos que captam o que o mundo não sabe da Coreia do Norte. Foram treinados para recolher imagens e informações sem serem apanhados. Daí que o The Economist use o subtítulo: “Journalism that carries the death penalty”.

Their reports are smuggled back into China, and then to Japan, where the magazine’s publisher, Asiapress, is based. Rimjingang produced a shocking video late last year of a homeless young woman, her face blackened with dirt, foraging on a mountainside. Images of the woman, who may have died soon after, went around the world.

Rimjingang is emblematic of the challenges to the regime of Kim Jong Il posed by technology. Reports can be carried across the border on memory sticks, or transmitted via Chinese mobile phones that pick up signals on the North Korean side of the Yalu river.

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