HW 11: Making Global Voices Heard

I chose to view http://nkzone.org/nkzone because I don’t really know about anything going on in North Korea as of right now. The blog though was mainly just event advertisements. With a style of writing easy for anyone to read and understand. The first blog I read by Timothy Savage was letting people know that a Tae Kwon Do team was coming to the states to perform. There were links to more information about the team where you could view photos and clips. I read about six blogs and only one had actual news. Timothy Savage also wrote about nuclear cooperation between Syria and North Korea. To my surprise the blog is in red, white, and blue. It is neatly organized and at the top is a picture of what seems to be fighting and cheering. Timothy Savage and Michael Rank are the only people who’s blogs are posted on the website.
As Rebecca MacKinnon explained there is bad internet access in North Korea and they are fearful of their own government, therefore there is no blog with firsthand information coming from North Korea. This seems to still be true and I think Timothy Savage and Michael Rank are American journalists who are putting their information on the site to still make it a watch blog. This blog does not really allow global voices to be heard because North Korea’s government is so strict and feared their people cannot voice their opinions or knowledge on blogs.
I agree with Rebecca MacKinnon that this North Korean blog is still a watch blog. Yet some readers may challenge my view that it’s not really a North Korean blog at all because Savage and Rank put up their North Korean information for probably people in the United States. After all many people may already know that North Korea doesn’t have very good internet access. Indeed my own argument that the nkzone blog is a watch blog seems to ignore the fact the North Korean’s cannot put any information on this blog.