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The New York Times’ oddly selective sense of humor

By Becket Adams

Published April 27, 2018 11:39pm ET

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The New York Times’ oddly selective sense of humor — North Korea leader Kim Jung Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea's northwest. North Korea claimed to have tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile in a launch Tuesday. | (KRT via AP Video)

The New York Times sure has a weird sense of humor.

Early Friday morning, after an historic meeting between Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in, the paper published a tweet that read, “A lighthearted moment: Kim Jong-un apologized to South Korea’s leader for disturbing his sleep with the North’s missile tests.”

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