Word: koreanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone starving to death. But perhaps that was because North Korean officials politely ignored CNN's requests to see the worst affected victims. Still, the vast majority of the thousands of people I saw were thin and in some cases mildly emaciated, even in the capital, Pyongyang, where more food is allotted to the populace than in the countryside. The officials refuse to discuss the UNICEF estimate that 80,000 children may soon die. They will say only that the famine is responsible for at least several dozen deaths caused by disease. They claim they are unable to provide...
...despite criticisms of his visit falling on the anniversary of a 16th-century Roman Catholic massacre of Protestants... West Bank Unrest: Israeli troops teargas stone-throwing youths - nobody's hurt - while men tear down an Israeli barricade blocking a road into the village of Beit Sahour. Defective Diplomacy?: North Korean denies reports its ambassador to Egypt defected to another country... Eyes Peeled: A $205 million NASA science mission is delayed when two shrimp boats are sighted in the offshore launch zone.. Cop Killed: A third New Hampshire state trooper is shot dead in a routine traffic check just after...
PLEADED GUILTY. JAY KIM, 58, Republican Representative and the first Korean-American member of Congress, and his wife JUNE; to three and two misdemeanor counts, respectively, for accepting more than $230,000 in illegal campaign contributions; in Los Angeles...
WASHINGTON: What caused Korean Air Flight 801 to go down on Guam? Federal investigators are starting to develop a clearer picture of the culprit, and it's looking more and more like the pilot. Though the feds have tons of debris and data to scour before an official judgement, NBC reports early examinations of the plane's "black boxes" (in-flight data and cockpit voice recorders) show the pilot had mistaken a hilltop landing beacon three miles from the airport for the airport itself, and that he had approached that site as if to make a landing...
...South Korean maneuvers are set to start on August 18. And Uncle Sam seems to be further antagonizing the North by flying 150 warplane reconnaissance flights near the demilitarized zone. Perhaps they've been encouraged by recent reports of mass starvation over the border. But they would do well to remember another maxim: don't beat a man when he's down...