Word: koreas
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Only last month North Korea brusquely rejected the latest call for bilateral talks with its U.S.-supported neighbor, South Korea. That gesture was characteristic of one of the most self-enclosed and xenophobic Communist countries in the world. North Korea has, however, opened its doors to a rarely admitted visitor, a reporter from a U.S. news organization. TIME's Peking Bureau Chief, David Aikman, sent this report...
There are only two ways to enter North Korea by commercial airliner: from China and from the Soviet Union. The symbolism is apt. For the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as it is called, most closely resembles the China of the late 1960s or the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin. North Korea's President Kim Il Sung, 71, is in fact the last surviving Communist leader installed by Stalin, and commands an idolatry that borders on the pathological...
Despite such public grandeur, the modern nation of 20 million strikingly conforms to Korea's ancient reputation as the "Hermit Kingdom." Though the library boasts a capacity of 30 million volumes, it has only four listings under "United States," the most recent a 1975 edition of U.S. Pharmacoepia. No foreign publications are on sale in Pyongyang. And at the Potonggang, the capital's newest hotel, foreigners are kept under almost constant surveillance...
...United States refuses to place on the negotiating table its forward based aircraft in Europe some 723 planes by Soviet count. The other is the Soviet refusal to include in the Geneva negotiations the SS 20 missiles deployed in the Far East in range of China. Japan and South Korea. The United States has argued that these mobile missiles about 100 by the American count could be moved with in striking distance of Europe...
...workers on long assembly lines put together standardized products. That strategy, which served the U.S. so well for more than a half-century, is no longer viable, Reich argues. Standard goods, from shoes to steel beams, can now be mass-produced more cheaply in developing nations such as South Korea and Malaysia, where the cost of labor is lower than in the U.S. To remain prosperous, Reich says, American industry must concentrate on high-priced, low-volume customized products. Examples: computer-controlled machine tools and high-tensile-strength steel. But rather than retool factories to make such advanced products, Reich...