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...Everything will be in ashes, not just a sea of fire, if our advanced preemptive strike once begins.' NORTH KOREAN STATE NEWS AGENCY, threatening South Korea with destruction. Relations between the countries have soured over North Korea's continuing intransigence over its nuclear program and the South's tougher negotiating tactics...
...Sources: Los Angeles Times; Reuters; Korean Central News Agency; A.P.; Reuters; A.P. Numbers Sources: South China Morning Post (2); Wall Street Journal (2); BBC (2); Wall Street Journal...
...down. Hill, only five months into his post, wanted to bring the North back to the table, but the Bush Administration had a policy of not meeting one-on-one with Kim Jong Il's government, so Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice agreed Hill could meet with his North Korean counterpart only if the Chinese were there. When the Chinese didn't arrive to host the dinner in the ornate dining room of the St. Regis Beijing, Hill made the decision to go ahead anyway. That day North Korea came aboard, and two weeks later, the talks resumed...
...repeated combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, re-enlistment bonuses and lower recruitment standards can only do so much to maintain force levels. So, the military is doing more to make its postings and benefits more attractive for spouses and children in military families. Mullen's comments on South Korean tours echoed recent testimony from the top U.S. officer there. The change would cut the number of family separations beyond those already compelled by the two wars, Army General Burwell Bell told the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 11. "In 55 years, the Republic of Korea has transformed from...
...achieved power, the gun remained its guarantor. Although he initially styled himself a democrat committed to market economics and black-white reconciliation, within a few years Mugabe began repressing internal opposition. Elections, in particular were accompanied by state terror. During the mid-1980s, he unleashed his army's North Korean-trained 5th Brigade on the ethnic Ndebeles of Matabeleland in central Zimbabwe, killing more than 10,000 for their support of Mugabe's rival during the liberation struggle, ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo...