Umm... North Korea tries to avoid media attention all the time, phone up the consulate and ask for a VISA to roam around the country taking pictures, this is wh

Umm... North Korea tries to avoid media attention all the time, phone up the consulate and ask for a VISA to roam around the country taking pictures, this is why they call it the hermit kingdom. What NK tries to do is control the media. Also, when they are successful at avoiding media attention you don't hear about it, so you have selection bias based on their regular outlandish threats that DO get media attention.