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Louis Pilakapsi, head of the Tungavik Federation of Nunavut, predicted that the pact "will result in a better social and economic state for the Inuit people," But it must still pass muster in the federal Parliament and plebiscites in both the Northwest Territories and the future Nunavut. Dene Indians in the western third of the Territories charge that the settlement undermines their demand for total self-government and control of oil and mineral wealth in their region...
...political science at Seoul's Dankook University, points out that the two sides for the first time used their official designations in signing the document, in effect according de facto recognition to each other. Kim Dae Jung, co- chairman of the South Korean opposition Democratic Party, called the pact a step through the "door of peace and reunification...
...pact's failure to deal with the nuclear issue is a serious but not necessarily fatal flaw. The two sides agreed to take it up in separate negotiations scheduled to get under way this week in the border village of Panmunjom. If Pyongyang shows that it is not merely playing for time, the two governments plan to hold further meetings in February, with a summit between Roh and Kim a much touted possibility...
...include the British, French, Dutch and Portuguese islands of the Orient" in a Japanese commercial empire that Tokyo called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. On Sept. 27, 1940, Konoye joined the Axis powers, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, in a formal alliance known as the Tripartite Pact. He demanded that Britain shut down the Burma Road, supply route for aid to Chiang, and that Vichy accept Japanese bases in Indochina for a southern attack on Chiang...
...believe that many of our agents in the West were there because of a conviction that what we were doing was right, not because of money or blackmail. It would not be logical for the heads of the service to go free while those who believed in the Warsaw Pact and what we were doing went to prison. In the past, when agents were arrested, we tried to arrange exchanges for them, but suddenly this is no longer possible...