Forensics

Posted by Brian from Shawnee October 07, 2004In reply to Forensics posted by SR on October 07, 2004

I need help about grammatical errors. I'm not sure if below sentences were written correctly. Could you help me out?

First question

" President Bush is trying to bring all of North Koreas neighbors together in a coalition, but Kerry thinks that this is wrong and the US should go back to one-on-one with North Korea even though this is what brought the nuclear nightmare that America is facing today. But he blamed *the North Koreans* getting nukes Bushes fault when the materials for building them came under the prior administration "

Could you tell me why the last sentence used * the North Korean*? Can we say the North Korean

second question

" To judge this debate as if it were a forensics tournament is to miss the point. "

why does a sentence above use "forensics"? Is forensics noun or adjective in this sentence?

Thanks in advance

To the second question above, from Merriam Webster,
Main Entry: 2forensic
Function: noun
1 : an argumentative exercise
2 : plural but singular or plural in construction the art or study of argumentative discourse.

Answer to the first question: We can say "North Korea" or "the North Koreans" in this context because they mean the same thing. The terms refer to the government of North Korea.