CNN's Bizarre Praise of Kim Jong Un's Sister at the Winter Olympics

CNN ran an absurd story Saturday afternoon, seemingly praising the sister of one the world’s most evil dictators for “stealing the show” at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.

The piece starts off, saying, “If 'diplomatic dance' were an event at the Winter Olympics, Kim Jong Un's younger sister would be favored to win gold.”

Hailing Kim Yo Jong as North Korea’s “answer” to Ivanka Trump, CNN claims that “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.”

Kim Jong Un's sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics https://t.co/1EenqF8pi7 pic.twitter.com/KULtJBtTEz
— CNN (@CNN) February 10, 2018

As the Daily Caller's Benny Johnson pointed out, the article even attempts to justify her inclusion at the Olympic games as proof that the brutal regime was somehow a progressive nation.

Babilina Hwang, a visiting professor at Georgetown, told CNN that "Kim Yo Jong is the perfect counterpart to (Ivanka Trump). And it also is a signal that North Korea is not this crazy, weird former Cold War state -- but it too has young women that are capable and are the future leadership." (emphasis added)

Conservative’s were quick to condemn the CNN article.

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

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

Here, CNN pushes the idea that Kim Jong UN’s sister is the geopolitical equivalent to Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, & that her inclusion in the murderous dictators cabinet makes it more progressive. pic.twitter.com/YKhgBWIGeI
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) February 10, 2018

If...
- Starving your people
- Oppressing your people
- Killing anyone who opposes your dictator brother

...were a "trialthalon" event at the 2018 Olympics... Kim Jong Un's sister would be favored for the gold medal. https://t.co/9GGRTm1kwE
— Eric Bolling (@ericbolling) February 10, 2018

.@CNN in 1942: Eva Braun is stealing the show at the Paris Spring Fashion Week.

This woman is part of a murderous regime. So disgusting https://t.co/RuosdfwYp9
— Rob Eno (@Robeno) February 10, 2018

Kim Yo Jong was "promoted" in 2014 to "deputy director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers' Party." Perhaps even weirder about this story is that three days earlier CNN noted that Kim Yo Jong is always "thinking that at any given time, if she is to make one mistake, her brother could have her killed."