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To: FaultLine who wrote (79200)	3/3/2003 11:54:01 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Ken - I was actually surprised and chagrinned to see that the best article in Parameters on North Korea came out this month, which appears to be the case for Foreign Affairs, as well. That, and the Asia Times link I posted, which you posted as the full article, on the paucity of recent Chinese academic research papers on North Korea, suggests to me that nobody was really thinking very much about North Korea until recently. Which reminds me of something I read recently about Australia. Somebody did a Lexis-Nexis search in major newspapers a few years ago, and Australia was mentioned only slightly more often than Lesthoto and Burkina Faso. It gets a lot more notice lately, of course, due to refugees, and Bali, and sending troops, and whatnot. Which suggests that we just don't think about all the world all the time, no matter how important in the general scheme of things. Out of sight, out of mind. At any rate, I get the impression that North Korea has sort of been off our collective radars for a while, which may explain why nobody's reactions are making much sense.