North Korea's Internet and Mobile Phone Network 'Paralyzed'

[Igel]

16. Meh.

I grew up with the spelling "Corea."

It's like the entire "Romania"/"Rumania" kerfuffle. Or the current insistence that the cognoscenti have the "true" pronunciation of "Pakistan," with the back [a], unlike us heathen who mispronounce it with a front [ae] and we must all assimilate long-standing American English phonology to Urdu. At once, lest offense be taken.

I also expect them to properly use phonemic length when citing names in Urdu, reduce Russian vowels appropriately and absolutely use the sharp/plain consonant distinction correctly, get the tense/lax/aspirated distinction right in Korean, and distinguish not only Mandarin tones but, when citing Chinese names from non-Mandarin areas use the proper tonal system for those areas. At a minimum. Otherwise I view them not as cognoscenti but snobbish fools ... or foolish snobs.

They don't affect understanding, so they're matters of scant interest.