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Daily Caller
RYAN PICKRELL
China/Asia Pacific Reporter
9:27 AM 07/05/2017


The New York Times, by its own admission, mistook a parody Twitter account for the reclusive North Korean regime Tuesday.


The New York Times fell into a trap that has claimed a number of reporters writing on North Korea, the inclusion of reports from the DPRK News Service into articles. Writing on North Korea’s new ICBM, NYT attributed a tweet to the North Korean government.


The tweet appears as follows:


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http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/05/the-new-york-times-mistook-a-parody-twitter-account-for-the-north-korean-regime/
You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
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The Times couldn't spell Cat if you spotted them the "C" and the "T" these days since the fired all the copy readers.

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So many retractions, corrections, and apologies, from the Leftist medias in America over the last few weeks.


Trump really is making these people crazy. He really, truly, is.
You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
If they kill their own with no conscience, there is nothing to stop them from killing you.
Rational fear and anger at vicious murderous Islamic terrorists is the same as irrational antisemitism, according to the Leftists.

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The Times couldn't spell Cat if you spotted them the "C" and the "T" these days since the fired all the copy readers.

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Yeah, nobody respects the copyeditors until they're gone.

Specailly when you abdicate the position to the interwebs public at large.  As stable a group if there ever was....

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Is there really much of a difference? North Korea's public statements already border on parody.
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