A
climate change summit hosted by South Korea has drawn
ridicule for kicking off with a promotional video suggesting it was taking
place in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
اضافة اعلان
The opening ceremony for the P4G, or Partnering for Green
Growth, summit on the weekend featured speeches from world leaders including
German Chancellor
Angela Merkel, French President
Emmanuel Macron, and Chinese
Premier
Li Keqiang.
First, though, came the lavishly produced video. At one
point it centered on the Taedong river in North Korea’s capital, pulling back
to reveal the giant May Day Stadium, zooming out rapidly to take in the rest of
the city, the Korean peninsula, Asia and the world. “Leaders from around the
world gather here today,” read a caption.
The South remains officially at war with its nuclear-armed
and impoverished neighbor, and ultra-conservatives often paint President Moon
Jae-in as a sympathizer with the North.
The mistake prompted online ridicule while the country’s
main opposition People Power Party slammed the Moon administration, calling it
a “diplomatic disaster”. The video has since been reedited to replace the
offending footage with a zoom-out from Seoul in the version on the summit’s
YouTube feed.
Seoul’s presidential Blue House said the video was created
by an external production company that had been working under a “tight
schedule”.
In a statement sent to AFP, organizers expressed “regret
that we did not thoroughly check during the preparatory stage,” promising to
“do our best to ensure that such problems do not happen again.”
Read more
Lifestyle
.jpg)
.jpg)
