Korea's importance overlooked in Princeton academics
When the papers are replete with up-to-the-minute, in-your-face coverage of Iraq, Iraq, Iraq (it's alarming how normal it is already), sometimes with more than five articles on the same story; when the networks have made the war the most voyeuristic, sensationalistic, disturbing reality television ever; when suddenly, everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Steve Nash to your hairstylist is an expert on the Persian Gulf, I cannot help but wonder: have we forgotten about Korea?While the media battles it out for the most complete coverage of the war (and next year's Pulitzer for public service), largely relegating updates on the Korean peninsula to Reuters blurbs, the North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun has declared that the Iraqi war is the United States' most blatant act of terrorism yet.