Abstract
This chapter explores visual representations of North Korea across a range of American news media outlets. Drawing on literature from visual framing and media studies, it examines the visuals employed in news media discourse surrounding North Korea, focusing on photographs and political cartoons, as well as cover stories from Newsweek magazine. This chapter finds that North Korea is visually represented most commonly through images of Kim Jong-un, and that Kim is in turn usually featured with missiles. In addition to delineating between the types of visual arguments made using images portraying North Korea, this chapter also discusses the metonymic functions of these images, through which the whole of North Korea is seen to be represented and encapsulated by a small number of specific images. The implications of the coverage are also discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Diplomatic and Mediated Arguments in the North Korean Crisis |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillian |
| Pages | 279 |
| Number of pages | 294 |
| Publication status | Published - May 2021 |