South Korea begins massive anti-submarine drills

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http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/05/south.korea.submarine.drills/index.html?iref=allsearch#fbid=3dIV5lblt_u&wom=false



This is a hard news about the international relationship between Korean peninsula, China, American and Japan.

The relationship of Korean peninsula has been in a tension since the March sinking of the Cheonan, the two neighbors has fought a war from 1950 to 1953 and this drills also has caused wide international public concern. From the perspective of news value, the news story highlighted the latent conflict of South and North Korea through reporting the massive anti-submarine drills. Consequently, a lot more attention from the government of these countries, the people who work, live and study in Korean peninsula will be drawn to this event. Looking backwards to the world war and world warⅡ, tragedy was always begun from a little conflict between nations. This news story help people to compare the history and the status quo and prevent the tragedy happen again.

From the perspective of writing structure, it is a traditional hard new writing with a brief introduction of the whole event and more details and analysis in depth in the following articles. Precisely, the main body of this news story is comprised by four parts: a review of the past event- the March sinking of Cheonan- and the impact of this event; a list of numbers of submarines, military braches and people involved in the drills; the interviews, analysis and views from experts, which make this new story more persuasive. In the final parts of this news, it reveal the hidden truth of this submarine drill, that is, this dills was actually supported by American, who is deliberately pressuring China to clarify its position. It is not only a simply antagonize and from South Korea to North Korea, but also a trick American playing on China.

In a word, this news story draws a clear relationship framework about those four countries to reader and can be seen as an important reference about international relationship to people.