The credibility of the story is completely undermined by the laziness of the reporting team in taking a file photo of a building in the wrong country and assuming it will serve as an illustration. For those who can’t read Chinese the building is the Chinese Ministry of Commerce building. It has nothing to do with the story. You may as well use a picture of the Channel Tunnel for a story about the recent British General election. The most generous interpretation is that this simply laziness. A more disturbing one is that Boingboing.com readers will assume all oriental countries are the same so what difference does it make. By the way, I used to live in Jilin Province - and have crossed to North Korea several times so I do know the area. But the use of this picture is ridiculous.
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