Framing and dominant metaphors in the coverage of North Korea in the Australian media

Dalton, Bronwen; Jung, Kyungja; Willis, Jacqueline; Bell, Markus

doi:10.1080/09512748.2015.1022588

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“…The nature of the discourse itself characterizes North Korea as the “other” and questions the regime's legitimacy and political ideology. Dalton et al () find similar results when they analyze the public construction of North Korea in Australian media. Consequently, there are limits to the policy preferences that policymakers can choose from when it comes to dealing with North Korea on the rights issue.…”

Section: Framing the Human Rights Discourse On North Koreamentioning

confidence: 69%

“…For instance, the U.S. public is likely to understand the issues on North Korea such as human rights from the perspective or frame conveyed in the traditional media outlets. This inference is supported by Dalton, Jung, Willis, and Bell (, p. 524), who highlight traditional media as being central to how the international community understands the discourse around North Korea.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…As Dalton et al () discuss, the international community needs to find a new way to engage North Korea in order to facilitate peace. A quietest, multipronged approach to engagement was proposed here, which breaks the issues down by deprivation categories and key strategic actors.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A shift in the discursive approach to one that corresponds to the convergence of the human rights, human security, and non‐traditional security discourses will highlight the complexity of the rights issue. As Dalton et al () highlight, media coverage of North Korea tends to be overwhelmingly negative and sensationalized. According to the framing literature, negative coverage leads the public to perceive the other as “bad” or “evil” and the consequence of which serves to delegitimize, marginalize, or demonize actors (Carlyle et al, ; Dalton et al, ; Evans, ; Saleem & Mian, ).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the finding on the tone of coverage suggests that it may vary by the policy issue. For instance, Dalton et al () demonstrate that coverage on the nuclear issue remains primarily negative.…”

Section: Framing the Human Rights Discourse On North Koreamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Thinking about engaging North Korea: A study on the framing of the U.S. human rights public discourse in the Washington Post and New York Times between 2001 and 2017

Rudolph

2019

Asia & Pacific Policy Stud

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North Korea said in January 2019 that it was exploring ways to engage the human rights issue. This was a much welcomed announcement because the issue must be addressed in order for the two countries to reach a formal, comprehensive peace agreement and the lifting or easing of unilateral sanctions. This study utilizes framing as an analytical tool to examine how the North Korean human rights discourse is framed in the United States for the purpose of identifying the salient rightsbased issues covered in two traditional media outlets, namely, the Washington Post and New York Times. Next, it reframes the discourse using a coding schema based on the convergence of the human rights, human security, and non-traditional security discourses. A reframing of the discourse highlights how the universalist-particularist debate in the traditional rights-based literature masks the underlying issues of the rights problem. A combination of the traditional rights-based discourse and the masking of the issues contributes to a disconnect in the way in which North Korea has been engaged in the past. Therefore, a reframing of the discourse using the convergence of the human rights, This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Section: Framing the Human Rights Discourse On North Koreamentioning

confidence: 69%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%