Near the end of July, a month and a half into Hong Kong’s 2019 protests, North Korean state media weighed in on the events bedeviling its fellow one-party state and major trading partner.
With marches on weekends and public holidays consistently turning into violent clashes between police and black-clad masked protesters who publicly attacked symbols of Chinese authority and damaged property, it surprised few observers that the Korean Central News Agency backed China’s party line:
Near the end of July, a month and a half into Hong Kong’s 2019 protests, North Korean state media weighed in on the events bedeviling its fellow one-party state and major trading partner.
With marches on weekends and public holidays consistently turning into violent clashes between police and black-clad masked protesters who publicly attacked symbols of Chinese authority and damaged property, it surprised few observers that the Korean Central News Agency backed China’s party line:
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