American journalists have done lost their minds in PeyongChang. We’ve all heard how Kim Jong Un’s sister giving Vice President Pence the side-eye gave them tingly bits to rival Chris Matthews’ obsession with Obama. Then, the North Korean cheer leading squad appeared and NBC went off their rockers:

We wonder how they screened all of these cheerleaders before crossing the DMZ? “What? You don’t like your family? You can’t go. You like your family? Great. We have collateral should you decide to defect!”

The cheerleaders “stole the show“. They were “mesmerizing”, a “huge hit”. And Kim Jong Un’s sister? CNN also thought she “stole the show“.

“If ‘diplomatic dance’ were an event at the Winter Olympics, Kim Jong Un’s younger sister would be favored to win gold.”-CNN

Yes, because she smiled. The Minister of Propaganda and Agitation Department for North Korea smiled. Vice President, Mike Pence could stand to take a few diplomacy lessons, no?

If that wasn’t bad enough, get a load of this. The Federalist’s Bethany Mandel, who is attempting to raise money to help North Korean Refugees, is now being asked to apologize, by Washington Post Columnist, Gene Weingarten because she called North Korea the “most brutal regime in human history”:

This just in: I need to apologize for calling North Korea the most brutal regime in human history, and other dispatches from another planet. https://t.co/gLV7mXg72W

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) February 11, 2018

yes, you do. https://t.co/9uuMfgBCFb

— Gene Weingarten (@geneweingarten) February 11, 2018

Apologize? Really? We are now apologizing to countries who favor gulags, keeping most of their citizens in poverty, dictatorship and who want to blow us to pieces? They have straight-up legit lost their minds.

American media last week:

“Trump’s military parade idea reminds us of the displays of authoritarian regimes like North Korea!”

American media this week:

“These displays of nationalism and pride from North Korea during the Olympics are awe inspiring!”

— Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) February 11, 2018

Just a reminder that Kim Jong-un's sister literally heads the Department of Propaganda and Agitation. The Soviets called it Agitprop. The NY Times & other outlets are providing North Korea, with this fawning coverage, more than it could have ever dreamed of. We've lost our minds. https://t.co/05JIcySkC2

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) February 11, 2018

Replace "North Korea" with "Germany" and add "1936" before "Olympics," and it'll give you a good sense of what a disgraceful, repugnant piece of journalism this is. pic.twitter.com/hHicHg4h34

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) February 11, 2018

"North Korea doesn't need lights when they have a star like Kim Jong Un's sister." -The media pic.twitter.com/fNd9DTeGmP

— Jesse Kelly® (@JesseKellyDC) February 11, 2018

My theory behind Kim Yo Jong-Gate is that many of us in the West can no longer comprehend the depravity of a regime like North Korea. We spend so much time calling minuscule things Hitler-like, we've forgotten how to process true evil

— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) February 12, 2018

I’d say it’s time to come home journos, because you’re all drunk but on second thought, if you’re hanging in South Korea, you may as well take a little jaunt to the North. I mean, look at all those happy cheerleaders and the smiling Kim Yo Jong. They could use some great journalists there who will do Un’s bidding. It will be easy work, too because they will even feed you the script. After all, you’ve had great practice for eight years of reporting on the greatest leader you think America’s ever seen from 2008-2016! Put your blinders on when you leave Happy Land Pyongyang, though. You may see this:

Or this:

Or you may hear of their socio-political classification “songbun” system. You may see patrols, barbed-wire fences, become privy to forced labor and labor camps, prostitution, starvation, torture and even cannibalism. Be careful what and how you report, though. You wouldn’t want to come back to your homeland in a vegetative state and then die from “botulism and a sleeping pill”. But yes, oh, those cheerleaders and the “diplomatic dance” of Kim Yo Jong were something!