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Bad journalism Posted: 06 Jan 2014 06:03 PM PST North Korean government was fuming mad today over some reports that it executed a high-ranking officer by tossing him to hundreds of unfed dogs.                                                    Jang Song Thaek during his trial The 'lies'about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un executing his uncle by stripping him naked and throwing him to a pack of ravenous dogs likely isn't true. The story — which scores of American news outlets (including NBC News) reported last week after it was picked up by a prominent Chinese newspaper — appears to have been satire concocted by Chinese microbloggers. The apparently comedic Dec. 11 post on the Tencent Weibo website claimed Jang Song Thaek — Kim's 67-year-old uncle and former second-in-command — and five aides were killed after being fed alive to 120 hunting dogs which had been starved for days. The real Hong Kong-based newspaper Wen Wei Po published an article containing a screenshot of the Weibo post — which it used to justify its report that Jang and his staffers had been ripped to shreds by the animals, according to Reuters. And nearly two weeks later, the report was picked up by yet another publication: the Singapore-based Strait Times newspaper. On Friday, the erroneous news spread like wildfire across U.S. media. North Korea announced Jang's execution — by still unknown means — after accusing him of "attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and despicable methods with a wild ambition to grab the supreme power of our party and state." Bad journalism, isn't it? Plus the distortion by bloggers, it appeared to be true. FOOTNOTE: I've never heard of any cases in Malaysia where dogs ate human, except for some people being bitten. Rabies too are under control. However, over the last ten years or so, stray dogs 'disappeared' at a fast rate. Immigrants from at least two Asean countries love dogs meat. I dont know about Malaysians but there are also people who go after exotic menu like monkeys and snakes.

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