Manufacturing consent? The role of the international news on the Korean Peninsula

This article attempts to investigate the applicability of the Propaganda Model (PM) elaborated by Herman and Chomsky within the context of the conflict between South and North Korea. Coupled with the identification of dominant news frames, this study draws on in-depth interviews with foreign correspondents in Seoul to explore journalistic practices in covering conflicts in the Korean Peninsula. The findings show that a conflict frame and a human interest frame were prominent in national and international news, respectively. This article further discusses the role of the international news media in reporting on international conflicts from sociological and geopolitical perspectives.