It’s been a bad couple of weeks for the mainstream media — the Democrat Media Complex — and fake news.

On top of several leading liberal outlets like the Washington Post and Associated Press (AP) being forced to retract fake Trump-Russia collusion-related stories, CNN could be in legal hot water for blackmailing the amateur creator of the now-famous GIF showing President Donald Trump bodyslamming a man pro-wrestling style whose head had been replaced with a CNN logo.

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It’s horrible news for the media when…they are the news and especially when it’s bad news.

On Tuesday, the “paper of record” the New York Times reported that North Korea had issued an official statement regarding a joint military exercise between the U.S. and South Korea after reports that the communist regime launched another ballistic missile Tuesday morning.

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Except that it wasn’t an “official” statement by North Korea’s state-run media outlet. Instead, the NY Times was suckered into falling for the parody account below:

Imbecilic Americans drunkenly fire missiles into East Sea of Korea, demonstrating near total ignorance of ballistic science. pic.twitter.com/Yye1Kksvh7

— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) July 4, 2017

To get a feel for the type of tweets coming from this fake account, here’s a taste of the absurdity of just how easily the New York Times was duped:

Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un employs his lures to capture Coelecanth Coreanicus, pre-human fish thought to be extinct for 60 million years. pic.twitter.com/Li34S73VXi

— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) July 5, 2017

The Times later updated the report with a correction, stating that “Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article attributed incorrectly a Twitter statement to the North Korean government, and confessing, “The North Korean government did not belittle a joint American-South Korean military exercise as ‘demonstrating near total ignorance of ballistic science,’ that statement was from the DPRK News Service, a parody Twitter account.”

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For their part, the parody account rubbed the New York Times in their embarrassing gullibility, tweeting that the “Ministry of Culture bans New York Times.”

Ministry of Culture bans New York Times.

— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) July 5, 2017