This book explores journalism practices and the dynamics of international news media in Korea, and examines the ways in which Korean journalists and foreign correspondents cover news stories about the Korean conflict. It notably explores news gathering practices concerning the Korean conflict, and investigates factors that influence journalists' news production through interview with foreign correspondents including bureau chiefs from news outlets as diverse as AP, Reuters, The New York Times, the BBC, Le Figaro, and the Mainichi Shimbun. Extending its coverage to provide a rationale for the proliferation of new media both from encoders and decoders' perspectives, and drawing on lively empirical data to examine the processes of news production, the book addresses how international media impacts on the stability and security in the region under the influence of the competing superpowers - the United States and China. It examines the nature of news production by journalists covering the Korean conflict; and investigates news gathering practices and factors which influence journalists in the process of news production across UK, US and South Korean news coverage. Based on 18 key interviews with foreign correspondents and Korean journalist from AP, Reuters, The New York Times, The Financial Times, the BBC, CNN, Le Figaro, The Washington Times, The Voice of America, The Mainichi Shimbun, The Wall Street Journal and Christian Science Monitor.