Abstract
The main purpose of this article is to analyze 20 pieces of CNN news broadcasted from 10th October 2022 to 23rd December 2022 regarding the North Korea missile. This analysis was conducted by the software package NetMiner. A major point to note is that the word missile has the highest frequency (455 tokens) and the highest proportion (0.39) and that the seven-word expression has the highest frequency (153 tokens) and the highest proportion (0.131). A further point to note is that topic 7 was the most frequently used one in 20 pieces of CNN news, followed by topic 6, topic 4, and topic 5, in that order. When it comes to the keywords used in 20 pieces of CNN news, the word missile was the most widely used one, followed by the word North Korea, the word test (the word launch), the word US, the word Japan, and the word South Korea, in descending order. It is particularly noteworthy that the word missile is the biggest in size in the word cloud of 20 pieces of CNN news. This in turn suggests that the word missile was the most frequent one in the CNN news and thus it is deemed to be the most central and pivotal. It is worthwhile noting, on the other hand, that the keyword missile is followed by the keyword North Korea. Finally, this article provides the links among the relevant keywords occurred in 20 pieces of CNN news regarding the North Korea missile. More specifically, the keywords time, North Korea, range, launch, test, Koreas, and Japan are directly linked to the word missile.
Keyword
CNN news, missile, North Korea, NetMiner, word cloud, topic, keyword
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