A local private research organization has ranked South Korea 49th in its composite World Peace Index ... W-P-I. The World Peace Forum founded last year is headed by former Science and Technology Minister Kim Jin-hyun. Sweden was ranked first, followed by Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg and New Zealand. The United States was placed 54th. The research organization used three categories ... political, military-diplomatic and socio-economic factors in making the list. The spokesman for the organization said that when judged by the political-diplomatic category alone, Finland ranked topped the list, followed by Denmark, New Zealand, Sweden. South Korea ranked 51st in this category. He blamed the September eleventh terrorist attacks for the low ranking of the United States.