Word: koreans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...example, of South Korea's recent purchase of 120 F-16s, only the first 12 planes will be made in Fort Worth, Texas. The rest will be built in Korea. In fact, unlike all 3,400 F-16s built so far, most of the Korean jets will be built not by a U.S. company but by the Samsung Aerospace Industries. "The Koreans," says Pat Lane, an International Association of Machinists union official, "are going to build a little more of each airplane until they have the capability to build the whole thing from scratch." Lockheed points out that the assembly...
...atomic bomb on China in the 1950s. The National Archives today released an April 17, 1954 memo (signed by the secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Eisenhower Administration), which spells out plans to bomb China if the Chinese violated the tenuous truce that ended the Korean War. "In light of the enemy capability to launch a massive ground offensive, U.S. air support operations, including use of atomic weapons, will be employed to inflict maximum destruction of enemy forces," the memo says. (Eisenhower later admitted to using nuclear brinkmanship to move along U.S.-Chinese negotiations.) BTW: The memo...
With the complex implementation of the nuclear agreement on the table, the first-ever delegation of North Korean officials to enter the U.S. arrived in Washington today to discuss the opening of diplomatic offices in each other's capitals. Even though congressional Republicans (and a few Democrats) are still grousing that the accord was a giveaway, the other side now seems effusive: "The trend toward a full-scale improvement in North Korea-U.S. relations will never be reversed." Pyongyang Radio said...
...recent years, other Asian-American student groups, like the Chinese Students Association (CSA) and the Korean Student Association (KSA), have increasingly taken over these roles, some...
...setback to several positive developments in recent weeks on the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang has rejected Seoul's offer of investment and direct trade. "Cooperation and confrontation are incompatible," Pyongyang's Central News Agency said in a dispatch. The report was the North's first response to the South Korean initiative for economic cooperation announced Monday after a 50-year hands-off policy. So, while the possibility of direct trade between the two countries appears to be flagging, indirect trade through third parties -- which North Korea hasn't blocked -- is flourishing. In the first eight months of this year, it soared...