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https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/haircut-03262014163017.html that's not what radio free asia reports... so even if what you're saying is true, it's still radio free asia knowingly lying... and if the headline was "dumb socialist tv show tells people to have the same hairstyle as kim jong un" then it loses all impact.
Why doesn't radio free asia let us verify their claims with the evidence they must have gathered to make the report? Y'know, like a reputable news agency would?
That's a different story from 2014, not about the 2005 broadcast.
You might as well ask why journalists don't put targets on the backs of their anonymous sources by publicly identifying them. ALL reputable outlets sometimes use anonymous sources to protect the lives of people living in precarious situations. North Korea is not exactly known for treating citizens who talk negatively about how the government operates there well.
If their source is "some guy said" that's not a credible report, even with a name.
If their anonymous sources are incapable of gathering evidence anonymously, they are useless sources.
Why don't they post evidence of their claims, they don't need to give names or anything?
A name wouldn't be evidence of anything anyway...
Also the fact that it's a different story from 2014 ruins your point not the other way around...