Kang Chol-hwan was named a Time ‘hero,’ too?

Interesting exercise in headline scanning:

By glancing at the headlines of most major papers yesterday, you would have learned that late Hyundai president Chung Ju Yung and late artist Nam June Paik were named to Time Asia’s list of “60 Years of Asian Heros.”

What you wouldn’t have known is that North Korean defector Kang Chol Hwan also made the list. Want proof? Take a look at the headlines yourself.

Odd. Very odd.

The articles themselves note Kang’s selection, of course. Just not the headlines.

Also making the list, BTW, were General Douglas MacArthur and actress Gong Li.

(HT to One Free Korea for pointing out that Kang was selected to the “Heros” list)