In response to a New York Times article that appeared to heap praise upon Kim Jong Un’s sister Kim Yo-jong, Twitter pounced on the newspaper by claiming they are endorsing a brutal, authoritarian regime.

The article, headlined “Kim Jong-un’s Sister Turns on the Charm, Taking Pence’s Spotlight,” stated the following:

“When the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, decided to send a large delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea this month, the world feared he might steal the show. If that was indeed his intention, he could not have chosen a better emissary than the one he sent: his only sister, Kim Yo-jong, whom news outlets in the South instantly dubbed ‘North Korea’s Ivanka,’ likening her influence to that of Ivanka Trump on her father, President Trump.”

The Times was met with intense criticism from many on Twitter, as members of the media — most of which are conservative — attacked the article as immoral, creepy, and a defense of a communist regime:

ME: ok, I’m sure everyone figured out after yesterday how to cover a brutal regime. NEW YORK TIMES: Hold that thought. https://t.co/NrzEbgoQPA — Elizabeth Picciuto (@epicciuto) February 11, 2018

“Whoa, NBC and CNN are really going too far with their creepy adulation of North Kor—“ New York Times: pic.twitter.com/59sbLLpDMA — Cuffy (@CuffyMeh) February 11, 2018

Speaking of New York Times and its coverage of communist regimes — Walter Duranty was the Moscow correspondent for @nytimes in the 1930s — where he won a Pulitzer Prize for his work covering up the horrors of the Holodomor — a genocide that killed millions. Not much has changed. https://t.co/03n7y7Kz3z — Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) February 11, 2018

Reuters looked strong in bringing home the gold for North Korea today but coming through late, the New York Times. Think Progress will have to settle for the bronze #olympics pic.twitter.com/fIEoqmTs37 — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 11, 2018

The New York Times believes that Mike Pence, our Vice President, and the psychopathic North Korean crime family that starves, mutilates and murders millions of its people over generations are, ya know, basically on the same level https://t.co/06z7neZ4nI — Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) February 11, 2018

The morally failing New York Times https://t.co/r7OA1byjNG — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 11, 2018

I can’t believe Buzzfeed News is the only adult in the room right now. (No offense, Buzzfeed News.) https://t.co/C36FZHkgnT — Brooke Rogers ? (@bkerogers) February 11, 2018

I’m not formally trained in the complexities of North Korean diplomacy, but the premise of this New York Times sounds like a dispatch from Crazytown. “Turns on the charm?” That’s a joke, right? Seriously? pic.twitter.com/x1eFdI0vYL — Tom Fitzgerald (@FitzFox5DC) February 11, 2018

Just a reminder that Kim Jong-un’s sister literally heads the Department of Propaganda and Agitation. The Soviets called it Agitprop. The NY Times & other outlets are providing North Korea, with this fawning coverage, more than it could have ever dreamed of. We’ve lost our minds. https://t.co/05JIcySkC2 — Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) February 11, 2018

HER BROTHER RUNS CONCENTRATION CAMPS. pic.twitter.com/bk8P5CsWZE — The Warax (@iAmTheWarax) February 11, 2018

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