Word: koreans
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When North Korean and American diplomats emerged after an hour of secret negotiations in a basement room at U.N. headquarters last week, Pyongyang's ambassador Ho Jong stopped to talk briefly with reporters. North Korea, he declared with satisfaction, had made some unspecified proposals aimed at resolving the dispute over his country's nuclear program...
...argues that the arrangement would affect the livelihood of many Japanese and South Korean rice farmers, threaten textile workers in Europe and the U.S., and create problems for factory workers at inefficient plants worldwide. Such losses should, in theory, be offset by new employment in export-related industries, where wages are usually higher than average -- 17% higher in the U.S, for example. An accord should also lower prices for consumers, who ultimately pay the hidden costs of protectionism. A U.S. family of four pays as much as $420 a year more for clothes than necessary, thanks to high U.S. textile...
Pyongyang offered to allow partial inspections of North Korean nuclear sites, which havent been examined by U.N. officials in months. American officials found the proposal unacceptable...
After two Marine tours of duty, including eight months during the Korean War, Gene settled down to a career that has encompassed positions ranging from contributing editor for TIME's Canadian edition to operations director for all of TIME. Along the way he has played the role of paterfamilias to generations of page designers and picture researchers under 11 managing editors...
...Clinton met with Defense Secretary Les Aspin and General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to discuss options for dealing with North Korea's refusal to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities. Possible actions include sending an aircraft carrier and reinforcing Army troops on the Korean peninsula. The White House insisted that the review was only a precautionary measure. Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency stated that it could no longer guarantee that North Korea was not constructing nuclear weapons...