Word: korea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perfect world, only one Kim would run for President of South Korea. But perfection is rarely encountered in politics, and last week the one-Kim ideal exploded into a troika of Kims united only by their common surname and their desire to become the country's chief executive in the December election...
...single candidate." While party mediators scrambled to bring the Kims together again, both men seemed bent on pursuing their own paths. Unless one gives way, they will divide the opposition vote against Roh Tae Woo, head of the ruling Democratic Justice Party and the designated successor of South Korea's autocratic President, Chun Doo Hwan...
Ultra- Orthodox militants fight to impose religious law on a secular Israel. -- Three Kims vie for South Korea' s presidency...
...unchanged. Hemmed in by the St. Lawrence River on the south and its ancient walls elsewhere, vieux Quebec remains a warren of narrow, hilly streets, dominated by two landmarks -- the venerable, copper-turreted Chateau Frontenac hotel and the ornate 19th century building that houses Quebec's National Assembly. South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. is building a new automobile factory at Bromont, located 40 miles southeast of Montreal, that will provide jobs for some 2,000 Quebecers...
...mines were of a primitive design created by the Russians as early as 1908 and still manufactured in recent years by North Korea. When a ship hits one of the protruding spikes, acid is released, detonating the charge. The tethers were set to keep the mines, waiting unseen but lethal, within 40 ft. or less of the surface. Navy specialists said the same type of mines had damaged the Bridgeton in the shipping channel to Kuwait in July and the Texaco Caribbean just outside the Strait of Hormuz in August. The same type of mine destroyed a supply boat...