SEOUL: Wearing a pink Korean dress and flashing a wide smile, television presenter Ri Chun Hee delivered the news of Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test with her usual gusto. Using her trademark bombastic delivery, Ri announced on state television on Sunday the hydrogen bomb test was…
SEOUL: Wearing a pink Korean dress and flashing a wide smile, television presenter Ri Chun Hee delivered the news of Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test with her usual gusto.
Using her trademark bombastic delivery, Ri announced on state television on Sunday the hydrogen bomb test was “a perfect success!” and a key step in “completing the state nuclear force.”
The 74-year-old grandmother is considered a national hero who first took to the airwaves in 1971, leaving a career in acting for the broadcaster Korean Central Television (KCTV)
Ri’s dramatic flare set her apart from other announcers – whether she was angrily denouncing the West or boasting of the regime’s achievements and the strength of its leaders.
“She’s the perfect person to voice North Korea’s hard-line stance, ” said Ahn Chan-il, a high-ranking North Korean defector who now lives in South Korea.
“There is no one else who has that power in her voice as she does.
