Word: koreanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grisly threat, replayed over and over on South Korean television, was a sharp reminder of the acrimony growing between North Korea and most of the world after Pyongyang once again refused to submit to international nuclear inspection. The North cranked up its noisy propaganda machine to proclaim the Korean peninsula on "the brink of war" and pointedly reminded the U.S. not to forget that 54,246 American soldiers died in the Korean...
...trading diplomatic recognition and economic aid for the North's full compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and other Western demands, was scratched. South Korea put its 633,000 troops on alert. Seoul also accepted an American offer to deploy 48 Patriot missile launchers to defend against North Korean Scud missiles and announced that it had resumed planning for the Team Spirit military exercises with the U.S., suspended in February to placate the North. Washington weighed whether to supplement its 34,830 troops in South Korea and beef up their equipment. All the military talk sparked fears that...
...zone in an hour and to Seoul in two. The North, he says, is "persisting in the development of a nuclear-weapons program." And, adds Perry, "it's a very erratic regime. I don't know of anybody anywhere who can predict with confidence what philosophical views the North Korean leadership has about war and peace." But, he concludes, "I see no imminent danger of military actitivies." Nevertheless, the Pentagon is re-examining its contingency plans for South Korea, and it plans what Perry called "further moves that strengthen our + defensive forces" -- even though the U.S. realizes Pyongyang will regard...
President Clinton warned last year that "we will not allow the North Koreans to develop a nuclear weapon." That threat is easier made than implemented. The North Korean problem is a four-dimensional chess game where each major player -- the U.S., North and South Korea, and the IAEA -- fears the political consequences of making concessions and the military consequences of getting tough. Last week a new player appeared on the scene when Russia tried another opportunistic raid into U.S. diplomatic territory by proposing an international conference to settle Korea's problems. Washington politely dismissed the idea as a harmful diversion...
There are signs that Pyongyang is trying hard not to deepen the crisis. Its talk of destroying Seoul may scare the uninitiated, but this "is not particularly unusual" for North Korean propaganda, says Ezra Vogel, the CIA's national intelligence officer for East Asia. In a statement by a Foreign Ministry spokesman that the U.S. considered authoritative, Pyongyang only vaguely threatened to withdraw from the nonproliferation treaty if Team Spirit resumed in 1994 and other Western pressures were applied -- but it did not denounce Washington's decision to send Patriots...