Sometimes, you can’t make this stuff up. On the Tuesday edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer, and correspondent Brian Todd assessed whether the North Korean delegation at the Winter Olympic games “manipulate[d] world public opinion” without mentioning their own network’s role in aiding the so-called “charm offensive.”

Blitzer teased Todd’s four-minute piece four times throughout the 5:00 p.m. Eastern hour with the second one reporting that Kim Yo-jong returned home “as intelligence agencies try to assess if North Korea's attempts to manipulate world public opinion actually paid off.”

No, really. Seeing as how CNN swooned over Kim like she was Barack Obama, that question shouldn’t be difficult to answer.

In the fourth tease, Blitzer hilariously wondered: “Did the brutal regime score any propaganda points at the Winter Olympics games?”

Before going to Todd, Blitzer showed new video from North Korea in which Kim Jong-un appeared before a crowd while a band played what was likely worshipful tunes to the murderous regime. Unbelievably, Blitzer bailed out and the audio dragged on unencumbered for 22 seconds.

“We’re getting fresh analysis from intelligence experts on Kim Jong-un’s attempted charm offensive over at the Winter Olympics games...Brian, did the North Korean propaganda campaign have any serious impact,” Blitzer then asked.

Right on cue, Todd reported that “[i]t did have an impact, Wolf, but officials are telling us don't be fooled by a lot of this propaganda.” These unnamed U.S. government analysts were correct, but outlets like CNN, Reuters, and The Washington Post could have used that message last Thursday prior to the Pyeongchang opening ceremonies. Oops.

“Tonight we're told U.S. intelligence analysts are assessing the North Korean mission to the Olympics. What the North Koreans went there to do and whether they accomplished their goals. Part of that intelligence assessment involves pouring over the images now being released by Kim’s regime showing how he interacted with his sister and other delegates when they returned,” Todd added.

Todd and Korea expert Michael Madden each opined on possible takeaways from the footage and photos out of North Korea since Kim Yo-jong’s return with Madden observing that one photo “express[ed] that they're very confident in their trip.”

Prior to ending with the latest on Kim Jong-un’s grasp on his tyrannical government, Todd provided one last sampling of CNN’s pathetic lack of awareness on how much they were seduced by the North Koreans in Pyeongchang:

TODD: Kim seems to have accomplish that had goal, analysts say, but they believe he’s also manipulated the South Koreans to an extent and tried manipulate world attention away from the vicious realities inside North Korea. JOSEPH DETRANI: I think the conversation now has been on Kim Jong-un's presence and the cheerleaders and the athletes, not about the gulags that are still in North Korea, not about the 25 missiles that were launched in 2017.

To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on February 13, click “expand.”