The Western media refer to North Korea as a ‘rogue state’ without a single quiver.
The superpowers such as the US, on the other hand, are perceived as just normal countries although they have violated international laws, including United Nations Resolutions.
Noam Chomsky argues in his book titled ‘Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs’ that the real ‘rogue’ states in the world today are not the dictator-led developing countries we hear about in the news, but the United States and its allies.
Do the media relatively remain silent over the misbehaviours of the superpowers?
Should North Korea be a bizarre, dangerous and outrageous country to be used for the click-bait?
Aleksa Vulovic (24), Serbian Sydney University student, and his friend Alex Apollonov (25) travelled to North Korea to question how much of the “media-spectre” surrounding this country we can believe.
Aleksa cut his hair in a Pyongyang salon to find out the truth of a viral news stories which claimed North Korea had imposed strict hair cut laws on its citizens, forcing men to have their hair cut in the same style as leader Kim Jong-un.
They booked a six-day government group tour in North Korea last July to film, The Haircut: A North Korean Adventure. The 20-minute doco, available to watch on YouTube (below), was inspired by the viral story about Kim Jong-Un-inspired trims:
