In North Korea, foreign tourists are monitored by government minders.
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In North Korea, foreign tourists are monitored by government minders.
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Minders from the South Korean government followed each group inside.
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Government minders hovered behind us and took notes on her answers.
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Every so often he broke the film, irritating his Army minders.
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We know how to report when government minders are tracking us.
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My minders ceased their laughter and looked down at the ground.
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And we know how to report when government minders are tracking us.
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We had asked our government minders to talk with ordinary Pyongyang residents.
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Some schools even have specialized minders walk revenue-sport athletes to class.
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Two government minders accompanied us except when we were in our rooms.
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"The Asset," as his minders call him, poses no threat to anyone.
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Their human minders suspect that these are the side-effects of radiation exposure.
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The press tour minders were practically levitating with morbid curiosity when I arrived.
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On Friday night's broadcast, China's propaganda minders addressed the coronavirus outbreak head on.
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Journalists visiting Douma the previous day, escorted by government minders, experienced no security issues.
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They are typically accompanied by government minders who monitor every step outside the hotel.
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The relationship between the young director and his studio minders was tense at best.
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Reporters were assigned minders, and access to active front lines was almost impossible to obtain.
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Even if they wanted to defect, they will be closely watched by North Korean minders.
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" He got Fox News's attention last year when he tweeted: "Honest question to #MAGA minders.
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For his enforced holiday, Hu and his two government minders jointly decided on the destinations.
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CNN's movements are tightly controlled within the country, and any interviews are dependent on government minders.
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The drones' software allowed them to follow their human minders, automatically avoid enemy defenses and attack targets.
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On Monday, Kim Yong-chol explained that the minders had been overruled by Kim Jong-un's bodyguards.
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These issues aside, digital assistants could prove to be capable and even beloved minders for young children.
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The timing of the broadcasts -- on Kim Jong Un's 33rd birthday -- were particularly "provocative", government minders said.
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Government minders escort journalists almost everywhere, so it's difficult to get won at the black market rate.
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In the 1990s, most trips outside the capital involved being accompanied by minders from the provincial government.
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He has no minders routinely checking in with the 24 executive directors of the nonprofits he backed.
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The human minders may seek to understand what the machine has spotted to find new "explainable" factors.
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We were refused access to Tula Toli by our government minders, due to "security" and "transport" issues.
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Our minders gave us 10 minutes to shoot whatever we wanted -- except for closeups of the delegates' notebooks.
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A Reuters reporter who traveled with government minders to the area on Wednesday saw many villages on fire.
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For visiting journalists, it was difficult to speak to Arab residents without government minders insisting on being present.
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Numerous sources, including government documents, show that transferred workers are assigned minders and have limited freedom of movement.
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Women say the minders multiplied each month, until residents had the impression that the morality police were omnipresent.
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The Russian and Syrian minders spent much of the disinformation tour justifying the current air campaign on Idlib.
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Sometimes it seems that he truly does not give a shit, and you imagine his minders cringing backstage.
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Waymo says it will phase out these human minders eventually, but has given no timeline for doing so.
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He came flanked by a bigger entourage of security guards and minders than he ever commanded as foreign secretary.
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But as soon as his minders realized the error, he was limited to just three or four official channels.
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It's a spectrum that has to serve many minders, and there are constant complaints about the spectrum being crowded.
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Stevie is approached by the murderer, and his momentarily distracted minders, John Moore and Marcus Isaacson, spring into action.
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The video below, released by NORAD, shows the Russian aircraft over the camp with their US and Canadian minders.
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These minders took names of potential donors, followed up on constituents' questions, and stood guard against possibly offensive humor.
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On Sunday evening, several South Korean pool reporters were barred by their North Korean minders from entering the concert hall.
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"If ever we did try to talk to them, the minders would stop it," Edwards told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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In Nyingchi, our minders took us to a newly built village, which will feature shops and restaurants with Tibetan facades.
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The minders would report the conversation, compromising the target's security and making them unwilling or unable to entertain further overtures.
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Two sleeper carriages for the journalists and minders and a restaurant car were all that we were allowed to explore.
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Gunther gets on the train and, of course, escapes, though not before killing one of his minders in the toilet.
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In Kentucky, a display involving camels had to be cancelled after one of their minders was caught punching a beast.
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Never before have so many in the country worried that White House "minders" may not be properly "containing" the President.
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North Koreans sent to work overseas are vetted for political loyalty, but the government also sends minders to watch them.
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Instead, he spent his free time in galleries, at concerts and with French dancers, haughtily ignoring warnings from Soviet minders.
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At Robin Hood, the children are allowed to be out of eyesight of their minders, but not out of earshot.
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Donald Trump's minders can put a tarp over John's name on a warship, but they can't cover an entire day.
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" The reporters doubled back around a newsstand in order to enter the next car, what the minders called "the press car.
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When, after months, the global storm subsided, the rover's minders, now family, waited for its solar panels to be blown clean.
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At that point, two minders in trench coats whisked her away, telling reporters that she was too tired to take questions.
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Our tour guide had left the bus along with another of our minders; the bus driver was not looking behind him.
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He said that his minders tried to save money by choosing basic hotels and traveling between the three cities by bus.
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And when they do, there are often official "minders" representing the administration sitting in on meetings involving reporters and federal officials.
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My minders and I commandeered a table while Comrade K. went to the bar to order beers and a kimchi pancake.
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But beneath the smiles and bonhomie, al-Nimr's brother bristles at the fact government minders insisted we travel in an armored convoy.
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She's no longer a person — she's a product, kept on a tight leash by her minders, who literally drug her into submission.
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Though present in the early meetings, government minders were not a huge presence once a degree of trust was established, Hammond said.
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Now, he needed media minders to keep reporters from digging too deeply into a play that may have altered the Super Bowl.
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As her fame grew, so did her entourage: She had two minders, including Ms. Caçote; a bodyguard; a doctor; and a chef.
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He spent one of last days of 2019 delivering presents to children in La Guaira, trailed by two government minders on motorbikes.
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But a goalie is a necessity — and Toronto's surplus of amateur teams has led to a thriving market for rented net minders.
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Journalists who visit the Hermit Kingdom are closely watched by government "minders" who restrict what they can see and where they can go.
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Meet the net-minders: The rental goalie scene in Toronto is quite diverse, featuring folks from all walks of life and financial circumstances.
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It's a rookie mistake to approach a target in front of other people who might be minders assigned by the professor's own country.
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A foreign visitor, guided by government minders, visited a world that seemed removed from the country's punishing economic sanctions, international isolation and deprivation.
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Those rallies are fun, but back at the White House, nothing gets done and the president's worn-out minders are warring among themselves.
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But then, after a one-day trip to Manchester, we returned to London and the purse-string minders had pulled a New Coke.
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Forever observed, accompanied by omnipresent K.G.B. minders, they're exotic fish out of water, flapping around uselessly, gasping for oxygen and struggling to survive.
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Is Foy's character Sawyer actually being stalked, or are her minders right when they tell her she's irrational, and can't trust what she's seeing?
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Faced with that time limit, Opportunity's minders were thrilled not to have to spend any of those precious sols just looking for interesting rocks.
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One afternoon in Lhasa, we left our minders behind during a lunch break, and wandered into some back streets not far from our hotel.
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Though the team eats dinner together and has gone to the seaside for coffee, the northerners are watched over by government minders, Murray said.
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University students, particularly at prestigious campuses in Pyongyang, are screened for loyalty to the government, and foreign visitors are typically accompanied by government minders.
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Inside, a small team of minders watched the children, whose ages ranged from 18 months to 6 years, as they napped and played games.
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There are nightly calls with their minders at Antarctica Logistics & Expeditions, the private company that arranges travel to the continent, and their expedition managers.
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In the on-and-off cycle of repression and relaxation, some minders treat their target to dinner one week, then interrogate him the next.
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Minders set up umbrellas on the sand to protect guests from the sun and help them sip water to avoid dehydration during the treatment.
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Government minders then tailed the reporters and later forced them to delete all photos, audio and video recordings taken on their phones in Tumxuk.
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Some people told reporters from The Associated Press and the BBC on the scene with government minders that they were happy to have food.
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Winds move in different directions and at different speeds depending on the altitude, so stratollite's minders can steer it by drifting up or down.
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Once the technology matures enough that this kind of delivery robot doesn't need human minders, it could dramatically reduce the cost of making fast deliveries.
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He'd come down with four big minders, I let him take two in, he asked for the VIP area, and hung out at the bar.
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In March alone: Taken together, these incidents paint a picture of a platform on which crises are developing faster than its minders can address them.
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Of course, this content is then typically re-uploaded moments later, leading to a fruitless game of cat-and-mouse between pirates and copyright minders.
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There was no sign that the policy requiring journalists to travel with minders and to go through elaborate hoops to visit specific areas had changed.
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The vehicle itself isn't without a driver, though: two minders are sitting inside, one from Ocado and one from Oxbotica, to make sure nothing goes wrong.
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Faced with that time limit, Opportunity's minders were overjoyed at not having to spend any of those precious sols just trundling round looking for interesting rocks.
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We were allowed in only under the watchful eye of government minders, who packed our days with activities -- art classes, operas and an international tourism expo.
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He's on the trail of a man named Jackdaw when his mission, and the painful bargain he's made with his minders and himself, begin to unravel.
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Audio and visual surveillance of the room showed that the nuclear scientist's minders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were sleeping but he was still awake.
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The women, who are primarily Filipinos and Indonesians employed as housekeepers and child minders, reported low pay, little time off work and verbal and physical abuse.
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Before Collins was debriefed by Searchlight , he was put through an elaborate security routine that included changing cars and getting into a taxi with two minders.
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They are under tight control, entering and exiting the arenas staging the world's biggest sporting event with minders who shield them from any interaction with strangers.
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Ms. Ryom and Mr. Kim are not being kept apart or ceaselessly trailed by minders, as has sometimes been the case for athletes from authoritarian nations.
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The group of athletes, officials, performers, reporters and cheerleaders -- including the younger sister of Kim Jong Un -- will be surrounded by support staff, minders and informants.
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This video is a simple montage of scenes from the city showing everyday life — or at least what the government minders want you to believe is.
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Then, Iraq's media minders were always eager to take us to the country's crumbling, crowded hospitals, to show us babies suffering and dying from malnutrition and disease.
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This was also evidenced by the vast hotel the foreign journalists were put up in, where they were the only guests, except for their official government minders.
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There were 12 journalists, three Ministry of Information minders (government workers assigned to keep tabs on us and those we talked to) and maybe a dozen soldiers.
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"We ask them politely not to do it," Philip Pritchard, one of the cup's three minders who has been on trophy duty for 30 years, told The Post.
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Some 16 balloon minders in yellow vests identifying themselves as "babysitters" minded lead lines to the 6-meter (20-foot) inflatable as the curious gawked and took pictures.
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Not one to take chances, despite being in one of the most secure locations in the world, Kim's car was followed by minders to and from the talks.
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Every time we asked a question of a scientist sitting right next to us, we were reminded to activate our microphones so our minders in Brussels could hear.
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Once there, they traveled via bus with other journalists – and government minders – to tourist sites like the Arch of Triumph, a new water park and a flower exhibition.
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Most were unwilling to speak to us, but not Ri. "Trump has no right to talk about human rights," Ri said, as the government minders translated for her.
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The North Korean government, which owns and operates all domestic news media organizations, maintains tight control over foreign reporters, with government "minders" accompanying visiting journalists as they report.
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Children and their adult minders abandon the fountains, information and ticketing booths, shops, and shaded benches of Navy Pier, Chicago's foremost tourist attraction, to gather in giddy anticipation.
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Pioneered by CNN a decade ago, the screens have also made stars of their human minders, the anchors who blend wonk-level knowledge with tap-and-swipe dexterity.
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How he evaded his minders is a story still to be told, but his exit lets Tokyo, Paris, and his former employers end a mutually embarrassing diplomatic affair.
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They ride to Winter Olympics events in eight buses with a police escort and are chaperoned by minders who prevent contact with strangers and of course the unthinkable: defection.
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Learning that the more information he provides the greater his remuneration, he invents a network of agents and increasingly farcical intelligence, to the delight of his minders in London.
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The pair entered their pre-fight news conference from different corridors at a Liverpool hotel and had burly minders separating them as they engaged in some heated trash-talk.
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The king has not been seen in public since January, and Thailand's main stock index fell 3.6 percent on Monday following the unusual bit of candor from his minders.
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Workers are kept under close watch by regime "minders" and forced to pay remittances and loyalty fees to the government back home, almost always more than half their check.
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The reporters who get a half hour of access to this information do so in a locked room, with no electronics and a few minders, so nothing can leak.
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Look, we'd be rolling our eyes too, but we visited her and her record-label minders out in the desert, where she was shooting a video for her new song.
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It's important to mention that any foreigner who goes to North Korea is assigned at least two guides/minders, who will almost always accompany you whenever you leave your hotel.
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Children as young as 8 years old went to work, overseeing manufacturing and power generation and repair and even garbage collection, while they in turn were overseen by robotic minders.
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Even the simple act of brushing his teeth was monitored by minders, who tied a string to his toothbrush for fear he might try to use it to harm himself.
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HBO's would-be minders are experts in distribution systems and profit margins who know little or nothing about the ego-fueled dramas that help put the show in show business.
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Handouts about what had happened would be prepared by public affairs staff, and officers, called "minders," would go along with correspondents to supervise their movements and the information they got.
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HBO's would-be minders are experts in distribution systems and profit margins who know little or nothing about the ego-fueled dramas that help put the show in show business.
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Those ubiquitous checkpoints prevent journalists from reaching towns and cities recently hit by unrest, and in other places, the sudden appearance of government minders makes it hard to speak with residents.
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Passengers took mobile phone videos as the rap stars - who go by their stage names Booba and Kaaris - and their minders swung fists and lashed out with kicks in the Aug.
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Lying on an outdoor stage in temperatures reaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius) in northeast Delhi, Maliwal is surrounded by minders who offer her sips of water to provide relief.
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But as Trump continues to tweet threats at a war-ready North Korea, it is not enough to simply hope that the president's minders can stop him from blowing up the world.
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Celebrity minders will surely snicker knowingly at "Gemini," Aaron Katz's neo-noir caper, in which Jill, a personal assistant to the Hollywood starlet Heather, navigates the murky abyss between loyalty and servitude.
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But away from minders and surveillance, in the mountains where no one could hear us, they had no qualms about grilling this curiosity in their midst, a Korean-American woman on a snowboard.
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The 463 North Korean athletes — as well as the hundreds of cheerleaders and security minders who accompanied them — will now depart for home across the heavily fortified border that divides the two nations.
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In just eleven days, the X-37B will have spent a full two years circling the planet, with only a small selection of human minders back on the ground aware of its activities.
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McCullough said she was initially given 30 minutes, because the vice president was preparing to travel abroad, but that he kept shooing away his minders as the meeting dragged on for three hours.
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Like all the North Koreans interviewed by Reuters in Pyongyang, Ri was speaking in front of the government minders who accompany media everywhere, making it difficult to truly assess North Korean views on unification.
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CNN's government minders allowed us to reveal the actual contents of what Trump said to citizens on the streets of Pyongyang, agreeing to take us down to a busy street corner and interview citizens.
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But during a recent weeklong visit to attend a biennial film festival staged by the government, I was allowed to visit a few of the new venues, in the company of two official minders.
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But my stay in Damascus early this month, even under the restrictions of government minders, revealed new ways that war has wounded and warped the city, which I have visited nine times since 2001.
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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje plays mostly mute gangster-reptile Croc, while a couple of minders charged with keeping the squad in line, golden boy Rick Flag and mystic samurai Katana, are lost in the mix.
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The visitors reportedly did not encounter the minders who are usually assigned to visitors in the North and were free to move about on the premises of the hotel, one South Korean official added.
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I got woken up a few minutes ago with a call from our minders saying that we need to put on suits, bring light gear and leave the hotel right now for a major event.
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Ningsih first arrived in Hong Kong in 22014 to be a domestic helper, working for subsistence wages as maids and child minders for Hong Kong's families like tens of thousands of other Indonesian and Filipina women.
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Sawyer's rage over being threatened, caged, drugged, and restrained is understandable, but she also goes to a place of shrieking violence so quickly and completely that it's easy to understand why her minders question her rationality.
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His cat Choupette moved with the times too: the white-haired Birman, described by her social network minders as "daughter of Karl Otto Lagerfeld", has more than 100,000 Instagram photo-network followers and a publishing deal.
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It felt overall like a system that is making good progress in terms of learning – but one that also still has a long way to go before it can do without its human minders up front.
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The minders take pains not to be overly affectionate with their adorable charges: The orangutans need to learn to avoid humans and not be accustomed to their presence, in preparation for their return to the jungle.
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As Kolhatkar wrote about a worker at the factory: He gazed out at the smoothly functioning factory floor, the rows of machines diving and pecking in front of their human minders, performing a kind of dance.
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Hu says he remains under surveillance and currently has been taken on an enforced "holiday" in southern China by police minders - a regular occurrence for some dissidents made to leave the capital during big political meetings.
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The cheerleaders are not even allowed to slip to the bathroom on their own, and minders from the North Korean delegation, as well as South Korean police officers, are constantly monitoring them, the athletes and performers.
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"What brought me back down to earth was when the kids ran out," Hamilton said, leaning in to speak out of ear shot of the North Korean guides and minders who were accompanying both tourists and media.
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At the end of Season 4 (a full year ago), the writers killed off or sidelined most of the adversaries of Finch's group, leaving the corporate-backed Samaritan and its shadowy minders as the only significant enemy.
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Shortly before the signing ceremony, the faces of two visibly jumpy North Korean minders loomed on television screens as they appeared to push back at the cameramen who were lined up at the back of the room.
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Foxconn has a reputation for bad labor conditions, and visiting Westerners are generally closely chaperoned, but during a trip to the bathroom Merchant manages to ditch his minders and take a stroll through the vast, dystopian facility.
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A stressed, young white mother patronizingly tries to connect with black child-minders in a park; a mother and her teenage daughter bicker over the care of the older woman's infirm mother, revealing the narcissism of each.
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The news comes as Uber announces a public pilot program that will see its autonomous vehicles (with minders sitting in the front seat in case something goes wrong) picking up real passengers in Pittsburgh beginning later this month.
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A decade later René Carmona, another mathematician, convinced him that rather than searching for such patterns themselves, they should hand over the job to an algorithm, and trade even when the logic was unclear to its human minders.
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Waitresses in the restaurants are occasionally allowed to go shopping with minders and often come from families of a high social class, according to Rosa Park, the director of programs at the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.
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CNN's government minders, who travel with and watch foreign journalists on all trips to the hermit nation, let us talk to whomever we wanted to on the street, but that doesn't mean they were free to speak their minds.
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He also had grown intimately familiar with the rituals of pressure and coercion by which China kept its dissidents in line — the meetings over tea with government minders, the frequent check-ins from the judicial bureau, the police harassment.
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He got such access with Frank Sinatra, who simply told his mafiosi minders, "The kid's with me," and whom he snapped strolling on the boardwalk in Miami Beach, still with his guard up but with all his swagger plain.
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Members who wish to view the documents must report to special locations during prescribed hours in the presence of Department of Justice minders who supervise them as they're permitted to take handwritten notes only (you know, like the 1960s).
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Mr Blair (who converted to his wife's Catholic allegiance after leaving office, while remaining liberal on touchstone ethical issues) had to be kept in check by his prime ministerial minders whenever his zealous but idiosyncratic faith came to the surface.
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Ms. Smiley took the outbursts in stride and tried to engage an audience that consisted mostly of toddlers and their minders as she read the story, about a girl who struggles to fall asleep after a day at the beach.
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AT&T is saying that it doesn't want HBO to change its identity, while demanding that it become a Netflix competitor, "monetize" through advertising, and capture its audience on an hourly basis—all without a guaranteed investment from its new minders.
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He will not be without Pentagon minders at CENTCOM in Shanahan's absence, State Department sources tell me, but if proximity is power, there's a clear suggestion that Pompeo and Bolton are acting as primary movers behind military plans for Iran.
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My group of visitors had invited our minders and translators for a meal at Italy Pizza, and I sat next to a young man who identified himself, in fluent English, as a lecturer at the Pyongyang University of Foreign Languages.
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Likewise the child in the White House: He may throw a temper tantrum and frighten some less experienced minders, but there's plenty to distract him on the gravy train and he'll be demanding something else before we can spell shutdown.
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His movie, which has three parts — the first set in Beijing, the second in various towns and cities along the Yangtze River and the third in Shanghai — is leisurely and largely observational as it follows an itinerary established by official minders.
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Relying on a remote human operator - who could control multiple autonomous vehicles from miles away - is a step that would allow a path to profitability in the nascent field of self-driving technology by eliminating California's requirement for in-car minders.
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What better evidence is there that you've shaken Washington to its core when the minders of a system you've come to despise are leveling the gravest punishment the system permits against the very President who is doing the shaking up?
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Instead, abetted by a number of congressional Republicans, he has devoted himself to discrediting the agencies investigating the conspiracy and hinted at firing Mr Mueller or his minders in the Justice Department, just as he fired James Comey as head of the FBI.
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Some passengers scurried for safety while others took videos on their cell phones as rappers Booba and Kaaris and their minders swung punches and lashed out with kicks and crashed through cosmetics stands in a duty-free shop, videos on social media showed.
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Mr. Mansky negotiated with North Korea for two years before settling on a contract that allowed its government to provide the script and cast, assign minders to direct Mr. Mansky's crew, vet daily footage and approve the final version of the film.
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They will spend the next seven or more years learning from their human minders how to climb trees, make a nest of leaves, spot edible forest fruits and avoid snakes and other predators, before being released back into the wild as young adults.
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After winning the gold medal at a World Cup wrestling tournament in Melbourne, Australia, in 1986, he fled from his Bulgarian minders and went into hiding for four days before appearing at the Turkish consulate in Canberra to announce his intention to defect.
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But in the end, it seemed a moot point: The athletes' minders from the North Korean government were unlikely to let them use phones with unfettered, high-speed access to the internet, which would be strictly forbidden in their isolated home country.
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He has gone years without lying to his charges, or at least admitting to himself that he's lying to them — he knows they are more volatile with other minders, and he seems to know they've already crossed some point of no return.
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) - They sleep in separate dorms, travel in different buses and government minders watch over them, but North Korean members of the united Korean women's ice hockey team are bonding with their team-mates from the South, thanks partly to K-pop.
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The North Korean women have been mobbed by media wherever they go, including a trip to a South Korean beach on Tuesday where hundreds of reporters descended for a glimpse, according to a report by ABC, keeping about 1,000 police, security agents and minders busy.
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In 2013, the then-new leader gave a speech to the National Propaganda and Ideology Work Conference in Beijing, in which he argued that workers in propaganda and ideology – broadly speaking, journalists and their minders – had become so undisciplined that some bordered on committing treason.
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With the United States drawing back from the region and talking peace with the Taliban at literally the same moment as the attack on Pulwama, the Indians likely feel uncomfortable being left alone, so to speak, with a Pakistan free from its American minders.
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And I'm not denying the reality of that racism, which has been apparent since Trump embraced birtherism and which plainly informs his views on immigration more than the commitment to merit-based migration policy that his minders and managers have been trying to advance.
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Diplomats involved in the making of the film were reportedly sent back to China to undergo reeducation (Jia Zhangke's documentary I Wish I Knew, features Zhu Qiansheng, one of Antonioni's minders while in Shanghai who became a victim of the campaign against the film).
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With 22 athletes and an entourage of around 500 cheerleaders, arts performers, journalists and security minders here at the Winter Games, the North Koreans have been subjected to endless scrutiny about what they are seeing here, and whether it is, well, blowing their minds.
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For those who continue, the pressure gradually escalates: frequent visits from the judicial bureau, being constantly followed and messages from government minders — ''Be careful what you say at your meeting this morning'' — that serve both to intimidate and to remind that someone is watching.
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"One thing that Japan has to establish is a system to screen the previous criminal history or abuse incident history of people who work in the nursing industry, [such as] child minders, kindergarten teachers and other staffs of nursing facilities, and push away ineligible people," Teramachi adds.
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In one of his reports, Mr. Wingfield-Hayes said that his team was "in trouble" after shooting a segment in front of a statue of the North's founding president, Kim Il-sung, in which he said something on camera that he said government minders deemed disrespectful.
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Of course, the North Korean team is continually accompanied by government minders who constantly keep track of what the competitors are doing—the country's brutal government keeps eyes on the athletes at all times to prevent them from getting too cozy with foreigners or causing a diplomatic incident.
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Meng's lawyers argue that while she awaits the extradition ruling, she should be allowed to live in one of her two multi-million-dollar Vancouver homes and travel through the area as long as she is accompanied at all times by drivers and minders from a security firm.
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During a pivotal conversation between David Haller and his mutant minders, in which he asserts his will to plow forward with his mental training in order to find his kidnapped sister, the window frames his head like a halo, his face directly in front of the spot where the diagonal lines meet.
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It's almost like they're saying that the things the president of the United States wants to do would be bad for America, and that, as horrifying as the things that the president says and does in public might sometimes be, they're nowhere near as horrifying as the things he might say or do if he wasn't closely watched by his minders.
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South Korea reveals it has a plan to assassinate Kim Jong Un Insecure leader Choi and Shin eventually slipped their North Korean minders during a trip to Europe and defected, eventually reaching the US. But even before they did, they smuggled the audiotapes out during a previous trip, and an intermediary brought the recordings to the State Department in 1985.
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Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — It's unnerving covering a president who is treated like a boy king, requiring minders; who is easily swayed because he is underinformed; who can sit still only long enough for short oral briefings; who swaggers and mocks to mask his insecurities; who tries to replace real news with faux; and who can't seem to fathom that distorting reality to suit political ends is dangerous.
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"In the news-free zone that is Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 85033 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE's preinauguration Hawaiian vacation, this passes for a bulletin: The president-elect ditched his 'press pool' of media minders to take his daughters to a water park on Friday morning," The New York Times reported.
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" And yet, it was in Turkmenistan—among the televised concerts of young people on stage reading The Rukhnama in a variety of languages and among the government minders who intoned that the book was "profound" but could not say why—that Kalder says he "felt the effect of the forced consensus that gives the book life for as long as the force is in place to maintain it.
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Though he might not admit it in public, he seems keen to turn Facebook into a Western version of WeChat, the Chinese messaging app whose array of mobile services, from payments to filing court paperwork, has made it ubiquitous in China—even if his recent pledge to store user information only in countries that respect the rule of law is an implicit admission that he has given up on the Chinese market, where Communist minders insist that Western firms must keep all data locally.
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