First drafts of Korea : the U.S. media and perceptions of the last Cold War frontier / edited by Donald A. L. Macintyre, Daniel C. Sneider, and Gi -Wook Shin.

"The papers collected in this volume were first presented at a conference of the same name, held in July 2007 at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University" -- ix

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The two Koreas in the American news, 1992-2004 / Gi-Wook Shin and Kristin C. Burke -- 2. Hot-spot journalism : the problem with sustainable coverage of the Korean peninsula / Karl Schoenberger -- 3. Covering Korea in the 1980s : the democratic story / Daniel C. Sneider -- 4. Democracy, anti-Americanism, and Korean nationalism / Doug Struck -- 5. The experiences of a business journalist in North Korea / Martin Fackler -- 6. The challenges of covering North Korea / Donald A. L. Macintyre -- 7. Tales of the Hermit Kingdom / Anna Fifield -- 8. On the media's indifference to North Korean ideology / B. R. Meyers -- 9. Decoding the North Korean enigma / Caroline Gluck -- Adventures in the "Axis of Evil" / Barbara Slavin -- 11. Covering North Korea's nuclear program : a very different WMD problem / David E. Sanger -- 12. Public diplomacy and the Korean peninsula / David Straub -- 13. The media's role in U.S. policy toward the Koreas / Chris Nelson