By John Power
The Diplomat
Mar 27, 2015
Local coverage surprisingly overlooks some serious espionage allegations that states the New Zealand authorities had spied on a former South Korean trade minister when he was a candidate for the top job at the World Trade Organization.
Geoffrey Cain, Korea correspondent for GlobalPost since 2012, also found the lack of coverage noteworthy.
“New Zealand-Korea relations are obscure and, understandably, wouldn’t get much coverage,” he told The Diplomat. “But it’s incredibly odd that the Korean press would remain silent about some pretty serious espionage allegations against their government. Korean journalists have all sorts of restraints imposed by their press clubs, which are tied to ministries and companies. There’s an incentive not to rock the boat.”
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