The letter to the editor "Nuclear device in N. Korea warrants news coverage," written by Steve Johnson on Oct. 12 makes a valid point. We, as a community, have the right to know about important current events, especially if they threaten our future. Our local newspaper should recognize that a hostile country testing nuclear weapons is a national crisis and should be reported to the public.

If you have not heard, North Korea has tested a second nuclear warhead. This warhead had the capability of targeting two-thirds of the United States. If the North Korean's decided to bomb one of our major cities on the West Coast, there would have been another Hiroshima.

These tests are worrying both the Japanese and the South Koreans, both of which we are allied to.

If North Korea decides to attack either of those nations, would we have the manpower to help our allies?

Should we help them?

What about Iraq?

These are all questions that the general population should be asking, and the news is the only way of getting our questions answered. There are other places to find the news, but I see The Daily Collegian in a majority of Penn State students' hands.

This is the major media resource and for many students, the only source they bother to read.

Knowing this, shouldn't The Daily Collegian at least put a blurb about this major current event?