JTBC Pyeongyang Line, High Level Interview with the North

The Unification Ministry announced on June 6 that the JTBC had received a invitation letter from the North Korean National Reconciliation Council and had asked to visit North Korea. Eight people, including Kwon Suk-cheon, JTBC Information Manager, will travel to Pyongyang from 9 to 12 September. The JTBC is expected to meet with the North Korean Ministry of Commercial Affairs and Broadcasting officials to discuss inter-Korean media exchanges and the establishment of a Pyongyang office. According to several JTBC journalists, the problem was complete security and only a handful of them knew it.

▲ Anna Sung Announcer (left)

Minhwa, who sent an invitation to the JTBC, was born the first year of the Kim Dae-jung administration in 1998, and Kim Hong-gul, the son of former President Kim Dae-jung, Kim Hong-gul, president of the media, has said today: "We did not know that JTBC was in North Korea." He said, "The Pyongyang office will take time, but it will be an opportunity to improve the coverage of the reporters." If that can be done, it will be useful to South Korea and South Korea. North. "President Kim Hong-gul also travels to Pyongyang on the 16th.

The official visit of South Korean journalists is only nine years since 2009. 16 July 2009 South-North Press Release with the North Korea Press Committee and the Northern Subcommittee on Communication with the Media ended after official contact with the Subcommittee on the Press. As a result, JTBC's visit to North Korea will encourage the exchange of journalists from North and South. Previously, Yonhap News and KBS, etc. were active in creating an office in Pyongyang, but JTBC was the first to take the plane. What we are currently interested in is the "result" that JTBC will bring from Pyongyang.

JTBC formed an inter-Korean exchange group early in the year and prepared North-South exchanges by designating Lee Gyu-yeon as the agency's director of planning and Joong Joon Il as vice president of inter-Korean trade. Although discussions on the establishment of the Pyongyang office will be conducted between JTBC and the North, the immediate results are likely to be exclusive interviews with senior officials in North Korea. At the North-South summit meeting on June 12, Jong-Soo Son, chairman of the JTBC press office, announced that he was going to interview North Korean leader Kim Jong-

The 1st In June, at the inter-Korean high-level talks, Lee Sun-kwon, chairman of the Committee for Peace and Reunification, expressed dissatisfaction with the issue of Korean journalists. Hao "was reported in the media.This was an unusual scene in which the North described the name of a particular South Korean journalist.