May 09,2020 Open Forum Kim Jong-un’s Recent Absence: A Viewpoint from North Korean Media Analysis “CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT STOP LORD COPPER HIMSELF GRAVELY DISSATISFIED STOP LORD COPPER PERSONALLY REQUIRES VICTORIES STOP ON RECEIPT OF THIS CABLE VICTORY STOP CONTINUE CABLING VICTORIES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE STOP… “They don’t seem very pleased with me in London. They seem to want more news.”1 The British writer Evelyn Waugh’s 1938 novel, Scoop, caricatures foreign […] Rachel Minyoung Lee Kim Il-sung , Kim Jong-il , Kim Jong-un , Kim Yo-jong , media analysis