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Showing posts with label North Korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Korea. Show all posts
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, July 5, 2009
What happened to the Wall Street Journal's writing?
I'm catching up on news after a wonderful 4th of July. Evidently North Korea did launch several short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan yesterday.
As distressing as this development is, I found myself even more distressed by some not-so-nuanced reporting in the Wall Street Journal on this story. In particular, this passage bothered me:
North Korea's leaders are able to push forward their weapons program because they show little regard for the impact of weapons-related economic penalties on the country's people. Moreover, they have South Korea and Japan pinned down militarily by hundreds of missiles and artillery rockets and they have China fearful that their ouster and resulting instability would send many North Koreans into northeastern Chinese provinces. (emphasis added)
As distressing as this development is, I found myself even more distressed by some not-so-nuanced reporting in the Wall Street Journal on this story. In particular, this passage bothered me:
North Korea's leaders are able to push forward their weapons program because they show little regard for the impact of weapons-related economic penalties on the country's people. Moreover, they have South Korea and Japan pinned down militarily by hundreds of missiles and artillery rockets and they have China fearful that their ouster and resulting instability would send many North Koreans into northeastern Chinese provinces. (emphasis added)
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