How’s this for some fake news? If Japan closed their internet (which they could never do!) like Iran is trying to do, they could probably get away with it. Closed systems create the feedback loop of circular reasoning. There are structural reforms needed that will allow for a peaceful challenge & transition, but it requires to least allow outside ideas to be verbalized and debated.

Japanese public broadcaster NHK on Friday sent a news bulletin that incorrectly reported North Korea had launched a missile that fell into waters east of the Japanese archipelago, issuing an apology explaining it was a media training alert. The news alert came as the United States and its East Asian

Source: Japan’s NHK delivers erroneous North Korean ‘Christmas gift’