Profile: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

BBC  Sep 11, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -40% Moderately Liberal

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -18% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    82% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

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"Late last year he appeared with his young daughter in public for the first time, confirming long-rumoured reports of her existence."
Positive
18% Conservative
"Soon after Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of Kim Jong Il and his third wife Ko Yong Hui, was born in 1983 or 1984, a state-sanctioned personality cult swung into action."
Positive
10% Conservative
"He was also named head of the party, state and army, and took on the mantle of North Korea's Supreme Leader."
Positive
10% Conservative
"This led to fresh UN sanctions and tensions with then US President Trump's administration also spiked, leading to a fiery war of words."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"He also tried to improve relations with Mr Trump, and in April 2018 the two leaders held historic face-to-face talks in Singapore to broker a deal that would possibly lead to denuclearisation of the North."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"But historic talks with former US president Donald Trump and early moves to improve relations with the South led nowhere eventually.Pyongyang's relationship with Washington and Seoul has since soured and turned increasingly volatile."
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-18% Liberal
"However, relations between the US and North Korea later deteriorated, with a second Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi in March 2019 ending abruptly without any deal."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Talks stalled after the Trump administration refused to lift sanctions until Pyongyang fully abandoned its nuclear programme."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"This led to fresh UN sanctions and tensions with then US President Trump's administration also spiked, leading to a fiery war of words."
Negative
-28% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Late last year he appeared with his young daughter in public for the first time, confirming long-rumoured reports of her existence.
55% : Soon after Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of Kim Jong Il and his third wife Ko Yong Hui, was born in 1983 or 1984, a state-sanctioned personality cult swung into action.
55% : He was also named head of the party, state and army, and took on the mantle of North Korea's Supreme Leader.
28% : This led to fresh UN sanctions and tensions with then US President Trump's administration also spiked, leading to a fiery war of words.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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