31. North Korea Threatens to Close Factories It Runs With South

     In this article, Choe Sang Hun writes about the conflict that has started between the South Korea and North Korea. In the introduction, the writer draws the reader's attention by describing in details, about what has happened on this Saturday in Seoul. North Korea threatened to close the factory that it operates with South Korea, the last significant symbol of cooperation that they have. The factory, Kaesong, provides North Korea badly needed cash, and for this reason, it is predicted that it is a strategy to increase pressure on South Korea and the United States. Then Hun continues the article, by mentioning cyberattacks from both sides. On Saturday, North Korea's goverment's official web portal was disabled, and South Korean officials also suspect that North Korea was behind cyberattacks. To conclude his article, the author, then, explains what North Korea says that might happen in the future. It was angry since South Korea and the United States strated a joint military exercise, and all the missiles are ready to attack the enemies if provoked.

      The purpose of this article is simply to inform the readers around the wourld about the conflict between South Korea and North Korea. Even though North has been threating South for a long time and nothing big has happened yet, through his diction and the structure of the article, the author  Besides that, he informs them about some foreshadowings of what might happen in the future. To do this, he uses diffent patterns of writing, such as descriptive and comparison-contrast. Also, the author uses numerous of outside sources and quotes to appel to the readers' ethos and add credibility.Besides that, Hun uses several rhetorical devices such as metonimy