Word: korean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book, Kaku examines U.S. first-strike war plans almost implemented between 1945 and the mid. 60s. The three closest calls, Kaku says, occurred during the Berlin Crisis in 1948, when President Truman prepared to drop 50 atomic bombs on the Soviet Union; during the Korean Conflict in 1954 when Eisenhower almost launched 1000 atomic bombs on targets in the Soviet Union, Korea and Vietnam; and in 1961 after the construction of the Berlin Wall when Kennedy considered firing more than 4000 bombs on the Soviet Union...
...than taking courses, working, and even boxing, Matthews loves to travel. "If I had the money I'd spend the rest of my life traveling around the world meeting people," he says. As an amateur boxer in the Navy, he boxed from Guam to Japan fighting American, Japanese and Korean service men. Besides the All-Navy featherweight title, this tour gave Matthews has a special interest in the Far East, particularly China and Japan. He plans to take a trip to China in 1988. Matthews has gathered a list of more than 30 people to contact in China, most...
...shipbuilding and coal mining have been declining for the better part of a decade. One reason: they face fierce competition from what economists call the newly industrialized countries, like South Korea, Taiwan and Brazil. The NICs compete largely by paying lower wages. The average hourly salary of a South Korean steelworker, for example, is one-sixth the level of his Japanese counterpart...
Japan's steel manufacturers, who played such a vital role in the country's postwar resurgence, now find themselves besieged by foreign competition. Among the fiercest rivals are South Korean and Brazilian steelmakers. Japan's five largest producers could lose some $2.3 billion this year. In the coming years, some 40,000 workers could lose their jobs. Says Yutaka Takeda, president of Nippon Steel: "This is the worst crisis we've faced since we started making steel...
Finally, U.S. observers speculate that North Korea's poor economic performance and military buildup could have led to an internal political rift. In the past decade Kim has more than doubled the size of the North Korean army, from 409,000 to 885,000 men, turning it into the world's sixth largest fighting force. Meanwhile, North Korea has fallen into arrears on its foreign debt of some $2 billion. The country achieved only about half of the growth called for in its last long-term economic plan (1978-84), and has yet to produce a new one. Both...