North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plants his feet in the mud, rides a cramped rubber rescue boat on a swollen river and directs military helicopters unloading evacuees on a rain-soaked runway.
North Korea¡¯s propaganda apparatus is breaking new ground in the way it has portrayed him battling alongside ordinary citizens as he tackles a flood emergency that has devastated a northwestern area of the country and is estimated to have caused a ¡°considerable human toll,¡± according to the South Korean ministry that manages relations with the neighbor.
That discrepancy could mean his government¡¯s trying to shift the blame for a disaster that may be bigger than reported.
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