CNN Slammed on Twitter for Headline Saying Kim Jong Un’s Sister is ‘Stealing the Show’ at Olympics

Conservatives on Twitter were pretty shocked over this CNN headline today:

The CNN report on Kim Yo Jong says, “With a smile, a handshake and a warm message in South Korea’s presidential guest book, Kim Yo Jong has struck a chord with the public just one day into the PyeongChang Games… Seen by some as her brother’s answer to American first daughter Ivanka Trump, Kim, 30, is not only a powerful member of Kim Jong Un’s kitchen cabinet but also a foil to the perception of North Korea as antiquated and militaristic.”

There is a lot of serious and substantive information about her in the report, but given the, well, stunning headline framing of a report about the sister of a dictator, CNN got a fair amount of criticism online:

This normalization of North Korea is truly sickening. While Kim Jong Un’s sister and their cheerleaders are enjoying themselves in South Korea, many North Koreans are starving to death and being tortured in work camps. pic.twitter.com/x3y1gf7KxK

— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) February 10, 2018

Hm. @cnn keeps calling Kim Yo Jong's North Korea's Ivanka, which I can't help but think is a grave insult to Kim Yo Jong https://t.co/efMwdAMkUG

— Wesley Chu (@wes_chu) February 10, 2018

JFC CNN… pic.twitter.com/YEOztJTJgF

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 10, 2018

watch Kim Yo-jung TOTALLY DESTROY Pence, and also this prisoner's kidney function

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 10, 2018

Kim Yo Jong, Juche icon. pic.twitter.com/fKiVrRWhyV

— Blake Seitz ? (@BlakeSeitz) February 10, 2018

Isn’t it charming, the loving coverage CNN gives to a murderous dictator’s sister? Compare and contrast with how they treat other heads of state’s family…pic.twitter.com/Lq6onoiY8s

— johnny dollar (@johnnydollar01) February 10, 2018

Literally everyone who’s seal-clapping for the NorK Gulag Queen for scowling at Pence is a gigantic, gigantic asshole https://t.co/d6cAD1rOsU

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) February 10, 2018

Otto Warmbier unavailable for comment. pic.twitter.com/DC22GBcqvJ

— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) February 10, 2018

I'll have to start a countdown clock to when I stop laughing at this ridiculous headline and story https://t.co/yVERHHyOIP pic.twitter.com/FUI4BRHp7D

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) February 10, 2018

WTF is wrong with these people? https://t.co/VkEHkA5kOR

— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) February 10, 2018

Will media’s Communist hagiography from NYT celebration of 1917 revolutions to love fest over member of a family responsible for running a gulag state of misery, starvation and executions ever end? Or is it just a politically useful part of “resistance?” https://t.co/HeESslc3wq

— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) February 10, 2018

Oh, for the love of… pic.twitter.com/Ke0pO1HeBo

— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) February 10, 2018

And on top of that, there’s also the reaction to a GIF of her “side-eye” at VP Mike Pence:

Kim Jong Un's sister with deadly side-eye at Pence. pic.twitter.com/I0TTX1zI2L

— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 10, 2018

Why are people in the replies treating Kim’s sister like she’s some icon throwing shade and not the member of a family that has terrorized its people for 60 years. FFS people you can disagree with the VP…even hate him….without praising the Kims or agreeing with them. https://t.co/xTKizY9xP2

— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) February 10, 2018

Yeah I'm actually ok with a murderous regime not being into our Vice President https://t.co/9XapDZM89l

— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) February 10, 2018

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