By Rob KriegerNot many people can say they have visited North Korea, but one LSU professor, Bradley Martin, Manship Chair in Journalism, can. His foreign studies have culminated into a book, Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty, which will be released next month.
Martin grew up in Georgia and went to college at Princeton University. After Princeton Martin decided to go to Emory for law, but soon realized he didn’t care for it, so he joined the Peace Corps in 1965, during the Vietnam War.
“It was while I was in Thailand that I got interested in journalism,” said Martin. “Before I went I had been reading Time and Newsweek, and when I got there I realized what I was reading was wrong. The whole war was going very badly and we weren’t going to win it. It was easy to see that this close to the war. I said I could do better than that I can do better than those news magazines.”
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