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...Over the weekend, Kim engineered an amnesty for two imprisoned former dictators, Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo, who had both previously ordered Kim's execution. And Kim still has hopes for South Korea's reunification with the North, though it's still unclear whether those across the DMZ in Pyongyang share his desire. Long before that can happen, however, the South Korean economy must submit itself to the IMF knife. Financial players still doubt Kim has the discipline to go with his dreams...
...Even though 125 countries have now signed a treaty banning the anti-personnel weapons, the makers won?t go out of business. There's their old standby the United States, which is refusing to sign up until it is given a special exclusion to plant mines in the Korean DMZ. Not to mention Russia, China, Iraq, Iran and Egypt, who all balked at this landmark treaty...
...news that the Great War was over to units east of the Rhine; on the way home, his plane crashed and he was killed. Art Bonifas, near the end of his tour, took a group out one day in 1976 to prune a poplar in the DMZ; the North Koreans set upon them and killed him. In Vietnam, Ron Zinn, twice an Olympic race walker, went out on patrol ahead of his unit and stepped on a mine. Bob Fuellhart was advising a Vietnamese battalion; while word was being sent up from the rear that his daughter had just been...
Cold war dramas are an anachronism in most of the world today. Not so in Korea. The Seoul government quickly labeled the landing "an act of military provocation" and demanded that the North call a halt to violations of the armistice agreement that ended the war in 1953. The DMZ is the world's most heavily armed border, and probably the tensest. With North Korea mired in famine and economic stagnation, there is considerable apprehension among its neighbors that the Stalinist government in Pyongyang might seek a solution in a desperate attack on the South...
...Senate majority leader after the 1994 elections, everyone agreed that he is one of the most successful leaders the Senate has ever had. Now he is determined to convince American voters that he should be given the chance to apply that legacy to leading the nation. -->