Lester Holt managed to achieve a near-impossible feat over the weekend, with the NBC Nightly News anchor obtaining permission to broadcast from North Korea.

And on Monday he reported from a ski resort in the totalitarian dictatorship that will soon host athletes ahead of the Winter Games.

That segment managed to draw the ire of his critics however, who went after Holt for saying: 'We have all been treated with respect here.'

'Sure is nice of NBC to help North Korea rehab their image from beating and torturing an American citizen to death. Hope Otto Warmbier's family is watching!' wrote Stephen Miller, a Fox News contributor.

Miller and Holt's other critics did not think that the human rights violations which led to Warmbier's death after he tore down a poster of the country's ruler or North Korea's notoriously tight control over press broadcasts might be the reason Holt made that comment.

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NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt has been slammed for his 'cushy' reports from North Korea

An @NBCNews exclusive: “We have been treated with respect here.” @lesterholtnbc is just a few hours outside the capital of Pyongyang with a rare look inside North Korea pic.twitter.com/xTZM6QcLEy — TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 22, 2018

Fox News host Eric Boling also chimed in, posting a tweet in which he imagined how he would have responded to Holt's comment.

'I’ve been "treated with respect" in North Korea (Lester Holt, NBC),' wrote Bollinh

'"Tell that to Otto Warmbier’s parents.. see what they say to you Lester" (Me, Eric Bolling)'

Bolling, who has never reported from North Korea, did not mention the comments Holt made about his access while in the country.

Holt made it very clear that the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs 'crafted much of the itinerary of where we can go and [is] advising us on what they don't frankly want us to shoot'.

He also said that North Korean guards thoroughly searched he and his staff's belongings when they entered the country - including inspecting the novels they brought to read and even one staffer's toothbrush.

These attacks also came before Holt could report on his trip from American soil, where he would be capable of making critical comments about the regime or Kim Jong-un without risking his life and the life of his crew.

Holt came under fire on Monday, when he said he had been 'treated with respect' by the North Koreans

Holt filmed

part of his report from the North Korean ski resort of Masikryong, where the joint Korean Olympic team plans to train ahead of next month's games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

It's been reported that the state-of-the-art resort cost the Kim regime $35million to build, even with slave labor, while most of the country starved.

As DailyMail.com reported last year, the resort has been mostly a ghost town since it was opened in 2013.

On the day that Holt visited the resort though, the slopes were bustling with families in eerily similar bright-colored outfits.

Holt commented that the resort was 'certainly a part' of North Korea that the regime 'would like us to see'.

'Pro tip for @LesterHoltNBC: when everyone is wearing matching jackets it is a staged event,' Richard Grenell, President Trump's nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Germany, tweeted.

Twitter users described Holt's report as 'propaganda' and 'vile and embarrassing' - among other things.

North Korea keeps foreign press on a tight leash while visiting the country. Government minders are assigned to all journalists who enter the country, to make sure that the coverage is only positive. But generally journalists get around this censorship by adding comments about the lack of access to their reports in post-production.

This is perhaps something that Holt wasn't allowed to do since he was still in North Korea when his first report aired on Sunday.

One viewer pointed this out in a tweet.

North Korea keeps foreign press on a tight leash while visiting the country - a fact this Twitter user pointed out

''It's super weird to watch Lester Holy sugar coat North Korea in an obvious effort not to piss off the minders and get himself detained. I wonder what he'll say when he comes back?' Twitter user Laury Pflaum wrote.