I read an interesting article yesterday about the news coverage of North Korea's drive towards nuclear weapons. Looking back on it now, it's obvious that the North started a nuclearization program in 1996 and pursued it each year no matter what was going on at the negotiating table. (Both political parties and the Clinton and Bush administration were taken to task in this article)<p>Looking at the press coverage, however, was even more interesting. There were some quite prominent columnists who insisted that the North was misunderstood, that they weren't committed to continuing to develop weapons, and that the various tactics used by both administrations were really what was at the root of the North's belligerence.<p>Sometimes pleas for perspective can be good, and sometimes they can all be so much noise. I'm not going to characterize this piece, but I'll note that there is a great similarity between how NK was covered with nukes and how China is being covered with CyberWarfare.<p>I find it disconcerting.