Word: koreans
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...witnessing the grief of another is immobilizing—frustrating and trying if it’s the grief of someone you care about. My Korean was awful, and I couldn’t seem to do anything for him except insist that I sleep on the floor and he in my bed (the crusade failed). It seemed as though all I could do was watch him break...
...Hyundai's ad line - You can return your car to us if you lose your job - still moving cars? Yes. The Korean brands, Hyundai and Kia, have gained market share this year at the expense of their American, Japanese and European rivals. Both Hyundai and Kia were outperforming the industry through May. "Hyundai's share is up over 2 percentage points over the first half of '08, which is a massive undertaking in a very volatile market. We do continue to see them in a position to go after additional share, but it will be a more difficult environment...
...Russia's expanding trade with Burma includes an agreement to sell the poverty-stricken nation a nuclear research reactor, and the regime has also been bolstering ties with North Korea, receiving arms shipments from its sister Asian pariah state, and employing North Korean engineers to build massive underground bunkers at its fortress-like capital of Naypyidaw...
...range of missiles. The Obama Administration, in the wake of Kim's recent, relentless belligerence, has made it clear that preventing the proliferation of missiles and other weapons of mass destruction is what drives U.S. policy now. On June 30, the Administration imposed unilateral U.S. sanctions on two North Korean companies engaged in proliferation - sanctions that will "augment efforts to curtail the North Korean regime's ability to develop and sell WMD and missiles," says Bruce Klingner, former North Korea analyst at the CIA, now a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. One of the firms sanctioned, called...
...sanctions came as the U.S. Navy was tracking - but not boarding - a North Korean freighter as it moved slowly across the ocean, apparently headed toward Burma, and then turned around and appeared to be heading back. East Asian diplomats have said that North Korea and the regime in Burma have recently stepped up military ties. A large North Korean military delegation recently visited the country, "and the suspicion is that it was very much a sales call. Pyongyang is looking for more customers for its missiles and other material." Deterring that kind of proliferation is what will consume...