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Patrick Boehler
Patrick Boehler
Chinese daily falls for spoof: 'North Korean missile test delayed by Windows glitch'
Problems with Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 8 led to a delay in North Korea's widely dreaded missile test, the satirical American news website The Borowitz Report said on Thursday and it was obviously a joke.
The Chinese daily 21st Century Business Herald fell for the spoof. On its Sina Weibo micro-blog, it reported the Borowitz prank, including its imaginary quote from the state-run Korean Central News Agency saying that the regime "was working with Windows 8 support to resolve the issue".
It also fell for another dubious quote from a "source close to the North Korean regime" saying that Kim Jong-un was considering declaring war on Microsoft.
Just last month, the Guangzhou-based paper fell vicitm to a report by another American satiricial news outlet. The Daily Currant reported that the renowned economist Paul Krugman had filed for bankruptcy and the paper reported it.
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