Sensitive Issues for Publications
It appears necessary to temporarily suppress the documents and any sort of reporting that could possibly accompany them or address the issue notified in the documents known as "A Growing Threat" from the unidentified source. There are too many unknown variables at this point to publish either these documents or a story based on them. The principle point of ignorance about these documents is their point of origin: specifically, where they are from and to whom they were sent to. This point of ignorance has impacted the recommendations not only for this particular storyline that emerged from these documents, but for all the others as well. Moreover, there are issues of national security that are still ongoing regarding this particular storyline. In particular, the fact that the United States government is still attempting to discern the extent of the sale of weapons allegedly propagated by North Korea is one of the more prominent concerns of national security. By publishing a story about the discovery of this initial attempt to sell a U.S. weapon, the New York Tribune could possibly compromise an ongoing governmental investigative or global proportions. In doing so, it could indirectly provide an opportunity for the perpetrators of this situation to adopt alternative methods that could help them to facilitate success in their endeavors, and possibly indirectly lead to the start of some undesired martial encounter. Thus, the potential to cause damage is too great in this particular incidence, and whatever good that could stem from reporting this storyline is dubious, at best. However, because the government's investigation could change at any time, the Tribune might publish information about this storyline in the future.
The Tribune should certainly publish an article based on the documents that are compiled under the storyline "A Regime Weakened?." However, in doing so it should not publish any of those documents. However, as an institution of journalism in the U.S., it has a professional obligation to impart some of the information from these documents about this particular authority figure in this particular country. In doing so, of course, the newspaper should mention that the information is based on an unidentified source. Moreover, it should make a point to utilize neutral, non-offensive language as much as possible to avoid any instances of seditious libel. Additionally, it should be selective about which information it publishes from these documents. For instance, it should...
The public has a right to know this information. Still, the paper should emphasize that these reports are largely unsubstantiated, particularly since the nature of this communication -- and how it was obtained by U.S. government officials -- is largely unknown. Most of all, this information should be revealed in a way so that it does not directly incite any sort of violence.
The documents that the Tribune has regarding the storyline entitled "A Cynical Bargain" should unequivocally be suppressed. Moreover, the Tribune should also refrain from publishing any sort of article based on the information contained in these documents. The primary logic that supports both of these facts is the ongoing nature of this particular storyline. Moreover, that ongoing nature will continually perpetuate until the potential threat of North Korea as a nuclear power and its current government is extinguished. The crux of the matter is that these documents contain sensitive information about contingency plans to account for any sort of action on the part of North Korea based on its potential threat to what is referred to as the free world. Publishing any of this information or even directly alluding to it could compromise those contingency plans which could drastically affect international relations in that area. Moreover, such a compromise could have ramifications for the very livelihoods of any individuals involved in this part of the world including those from both of the Koreas and China. It is necessary to suppress all information about this particular storyline so that these contingencies can still remain intact if they are ever needed.
The Tribune should definitely publish an article based on the storyline referred to in the documents known as a position of strength. The newspaper should not publish the actual documents themselves. Moreover, it should include a number of disclaimers in this particular article, in which it acknowledges that the sources of this information are unidentified and that the nature of them is unknown. The general…
