Pyongyang media scrum
on 03 Mar 2008
Reuters photographer David Gray recently visited North Korea to cover the
two day visit of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. His first visit to the peninsular began with a media scrum,
What happened next must have been a rather unusual sight for North Korea - a media scrum. The traveling press of which we were a part of, consisted of approximately 60 journalists, 20 television cameraman and 10 photographers. But then what we hadn’t counted on was the local media, who appeared from nowhere, and were definitely not used to having to worry about getting in other people’s viewfinders, let alone being told to “get outta the way, Manâ€. link
