MSNBC uncritically ran footage of a North Korean official calling President Trump “mentally ill” Friday.
WATCH:
MSNBC ran a segment showing North Korean officials talking with reporter Keir Simmons asks an official, “What do you think of President Trump?”
Through translation, the guard answers, “Trump is mentally ill,” adding “if there is a war with America, we will win.”
Keir continues, “In this closed-off country, the people are hard to read. Some officials we talked to still hope for peace. All seem braced for war.”
NBC News also also ran the segment Thursday during its “Nightly News” program.
Simmons also described the demilitarized zone (DMZ). “So here along the front line to the North, there was a permanent sense of danger. They call this the demilitarized zone. It is anything but. Every day these North Korean troops stare down their American and South Korean counterparts, both sides today on a hair trigger. That is the border between North and South. This side–socialism, there is where the capitalist world begins. It’s not very long. In a war, this would be ground zero.”