Word: koreans
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...nation Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons last Saturday; it had ordered all foreigners except diplomats to leave and barred international inspectors from the country. If the outside world resorted to military force, a senior ! official in Pyongyang had warned, it would mean "plunging the whole Korean peninsula into the flame...
Doing nothing about the North Korean bomb is a bad option too. South Korea was well along in the development of nuclear weapons in the 1970s until the U.S. pressured Seoul to cancel its program. It could quickly and easily change course again. A nuclear arsenal in North Korea "could result in the dissemination of nuclear weapons throughout the region," says Christophe Carle, research fellow at the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales in Paris. "I can't imagine Japan and South Korea and Taiwan refraining from doing so short of extraordinary U.S. assurances." An East Asia in which six powers...
...Black, asserts that inevitably "being a minority is part of [minority students'] Harvard experience," not every Black, gay, Asian, female or Islamic student becomes active in "minority" issues. Tae-Hui Kim '93, who expresses her ethnic identity through the arts group Kutguhri and the magazine Yisei, says of her Korean friends, "a lot of them don't have the same concerns as I do. Sometimes I feel like I'm one of the only people who feels this...
Perhaps the awakening of individual identity can contribute to academia as well as to the personal development of students. Kim's engagement of Korean ethnicity allows her "to start from my own experiences," and she says that it has made her academic life "more concrete." The treatment of identity, in this way, becomes a bridge to academic understanding...
That hasn't quite happened--witness the detachment of Geary, Castelein and some of Kim's Korean friends--and the explanation may lie in the way minority student groups operate...