Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hata knows better. He is a Japanese of Korean descent who is used to working hard for acceptance. Yet no one, not even his adopted Korean-born daughter Sunny, knows, or much cares to know, the man behind the Chamber of Commerce smile...
...employees in a New York garment factory, two women announced they were fired from their jobs in an abusive El Salvadoran sweatshop, allegedly for raising the issue of workers? rights. The two women also allege that attempts to unionize have been met with death threats from lawyers representing the Korean-owned factory. Kathie Lee, of course, is quite displeased (and also very embarrassed) by this news and issued a statement stating that if the allegations prove true, "we will not allow that facility to continue manufacturing goods bearing my name...
...since 1953, in response to Pyongyang?s undertaking to refrain from missile testing. The announcement will allow trade in consumer goods between the U.S. and North Korea and investment by American firms in the country?s torpid economy. But don?t expect to see your local deli carrying North Korean kimchee any time soon ? prospects for trade may be somewhat limited by the fact that the famine-ridden communist country?s most important export in the post-Cold War years may well have been the very missiles it has now undertaken to curb...
Rocketry is grotesquely difficult, which is why they respectfully call it rocket science. So the North Korean achievement is impressive, considering their vast poverty. Unlike anything they have flown before, the Taepo Dong-2 apparently has four motors in the first stage. That makes it much more difficult to build. Preventing vibration from one of the motors from interfering with another motor is not easy. And since it has a longer range than anything they have used before, it is a big challenge to get it remotely close to the target...
...advanced is North Korean missile technology...