Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though association officials deny the charges, Japanese officials claim that the group was integral to North Korean intelligence operations through the 1970s. In the early '80s, the officials say, Chongryun shifted focus to concentrate on siphoning foreign exchange into the North...
...need to repel Iraq was appreciated because the world wanted the Middle East's oil at affordable prices and didn't want Saddam brandishing weapons of mass destruction. Today the nightmare scenarios of nuclear-weapons proliferation and regional instability in Asia may soon be seen to justify a second Korean war. If so, the alliance required to prosecute that battle will be impossible to craft unless serious sanctions are imposed first -- and until they fail as miserably as their predecessors have...
...program entered a tense new phase as international inspectors said they had lost the ability to verify whether the country's engineers had diverted plutonium from peaceful purposes to bomb making. The Clinton Administration said it would seek economic sanctions against North Korea at the U.N. Security Council. North Korean Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam warned that sanctions would "bring devastating consequences...
Thompson has spent the past several weeks grilling Pentagon officials and outside experts about the chances of war on the Korean peninsula. "The major and sobering consensus on that score," Thompson says, "is that any conflict there would be fierce and bloody and would leave Seoul in ruins." That frightening scenario is the subject of this week's cover package, and could keep Thompson busy for months to come...
...North Korea's nuclear capability crept a step closer to confrontation last week, men paid to think about the possibility of a war sketched dramatically different scenarios. In the worst case -- a computerized war game done in 1991 by one Pentagon analyst and never officially accepted -- an unstoppable North Korean force sweeps across the 150-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone, pushes south through disorganized defenders and reaches the southeastern port of Pusan within four weeks, just in time to block the arrival of U.S. reinforcements. The Korean peninsula reunifies -- with the seat of power in the northern capital of Pyongyang...