We’re still trying to figure out why NBC Nightly News and Lester Holt decided to shill for North Korea’s dictatorship.

Yes, NBC is eager to promote next month’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. But that hardly required anyone to travel north of the DMZ to film propaganda for a regime that enslaves 25 million people — and holds another 50 million southerners as quasi-hostages, under constant (if low-grade) threat of war.

The official Twitter account for Holt’s show admitted that the North’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs “crafted much of the itinerary of where we can go” on top of “advising us on what they don’t frankly want us to shoot.”

The result is such “news” as Holt’s report from “the bunny slope at a very modern ski resort here in North Korea,” which he justified as: “We’re here because some of the athletes from the South and North, based on this new alliance, will be doing some of their training here.”

It’s not an “alliance,” either: Agreeing to field a joint team for the Winter Games is a peace-seeking gambit by South Korea — which we hope has solid plans for when northern athletes request asylum.

Holt actually noted his news crew was “treated with respect” by the regime — as if it would disrespect such willing patsies.

NBC might as well replace him with Dennis Rodman, the best buddy of dictator Kim Jong-un.