Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressure is mounting to attract top candidates as international problems become more complex and world order more unstable. Threats from "rogue states" such as North Korea and independent terrorists like Osama bin Ladin are becoming harder to predict and contain. And with the explosion of the Information Age there is unprecedented access to sensitive information that could pose dire consequences to national security...
Aspiring pop star and presidential half brother ROGER CLINTON, 43, has been invited to perform at a concert next month in North Korea, a country with which the U.S. has no official diplomatic relations. Organizers say he plans to attend...
...trade policy has its low side as well--a battle of narrow interests posturing as national or even international interests. The AFL-CIO is keen to keep out manufactured goods that developing countries can successfully export to the U.S., whether textiles from very low-wage countries or steel from Korea, Brazil and Russia. It marches in Seattle under the hypocritical (or to be more generous, simply erroneous) claim that it represents the interests of the world's workers, when it is in fact mostly representing its own members at the direct cost of much poorer workers in the developing world...
...strategic environment has changed greatly since the treaty was signed. Iraqi Scud attacks during the Gulf War showed the dangers of theater-range missiles in hostile hands. And tests of longer-range missiles by North Korea and Iran raise concerns that must be addressed...
...North Korea joined the NPT and then evaded its obligations under it. But why did North Korea even take on those obligations? And why should we conclude that because that pact was violated, efforts at arms control are fruitless? After all, North Korea's secret activities first came to light as a result of inspections under that agreement...