NBC dumps analyst after comment about Japan angered Koreans

An analyst who was hired by NBC to "serve as an Asia expert," and who angered Koreans with his description of Japan's relationship with Korea during its occupation of that country, was hired only for the opening ceremony and will have "no further role" on the air during the Pyeongchang Games.

Joshua Cooper Ramo, who is co-CEO of former secretary of state Henry Kissinger's consulting firm as well as a board member of Starbucks and FedEx, had said that South Korea is grateful for Japan's role in its economic development, which remains a sore spot because of the brutality of Japan's occupation from 1910 to 1945. Among other things, Japan's army enslaved Korean females as "comfort women" during…