Word: koreanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...communications in order to fight future battles. During a simulated war game last May at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, a 20,000-man infantry division, outfitted with sophisticated information-processing equipment and smart weapons the Army hopes to have fully deployed by the year 2010, was pitted against a North Korean army corps three times its size. With computers that pass combat orders quickly and sensors that see the enemy better on the battlefield, the high-tech division "just clobbered them," says Brigadier General Keith Kellogg of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command...
...quick glance at the military history of America over the last century paints a picture far from utopia and peace. Indeed, after fighting two World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and many other small conflicts, it is hard to not ask why there were so many conflicts and why they were fought...
...humid in Hiroshima, a city on the southwestern coast of the main Japanese island of Honshu. In 1942 it had had a population of 420,000, but wartime evacuations had reduced that number this summer morning to about 280,000 civilians, 43,000 military personnel and 20,000 Korean forced laborers and volunteer workers. Hiroshima housed the headquarters of the Japanese army's Second General Headquarters...
...Russian misconduct that would justify the expansion of NATO is the experience of the cold war. Having learned the lesson of the Hitler era, the democracies responded promptly, firmly and effectively to a series of dangerous Soviet initiatives: the forcible imposition of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Korean War, Sputnik and the invasion of Afghanistan. I believe the West would act in a similar manner to protect the new democracies of Eastern Europe should these countries be threatened by renewed Russian imperialism. Because they are not currently threatened, there is no need to expand NATO now. MICHAEL MANDELBAUM, PROFESSOR...
Speaking before a joint session of Congress this morning, South Korean President Kim Young Sam paid tribute to Americans who gave their lives during the Korean War. "On behalf of the Korean people, I would like to take this opportunity to pay my respects to the memory of those young Americans who sacrificed their lives onKorea's battlefront," he said. Some 27 members of Congress are Korean War veterans. The South Korean leader singled out New York Democrat Charles Rangel by name. Pledging to pursue Korean unification, Kim noted that vigorous Asia-Pacific economic growth could only be maintained...