Word: peninsulas
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...theme of pragmatism was picked up again in the context of inter-Korean relations. "The core task," Lee said, "is to help all Koreans live happily and to prepare the foundation for unification" of the peninsula. But that, as everyone knows, is easier said than done. It is perfectly true that nothing lasts forever and that one day the totalitarian rule of Kim Jong Il in North Korea will end. Some analysts suspect he is in poor health, and he does not seem to have an obvious heir within his family. But it is also true that many...
...Beyond the peninsula itself, there are two reasons for treating relations between the two Koreas as a pressing issue. The first is that the north is one of the world's cruelest regimes, one that keeps its people in miserable penury. At a time when states such as Burma are rightly condemned in the West for their abuses of human rights, it has always baffled me why there is so little protest on campuses and among Hollywood activists of Pyongyang's ruthless suppression of dissent...
...State Condoleezza Rice flew from Lee's inaugural to Beijing to reiterate that point to the Chinese authorities. No harm in that, but the real lesson of the past few years is that the Chinese get it. Alarmed by the potentially destabilizing impact of nuclear weapons on the peninsula, Beijing, Pyongyang's old ally, has been deeply engaged in the six-party talks between the North and the South along with Japan, the U.S. and Russia. Lee would like others to be involved in thinking about the Korean question, too; he thinks that the European Union, for example, might have...
...family is a unique institution in God's plan." Spanish bishops have organized huge rallies in Madrid to protest Zapatero's new laws, but polls continue to show that the reforms have broad support. Indeed, after spending centuries gazing lovingly across the Mediterranean to its stronghold on the Iberian peninsula, the Holy See now views Spain as a sad example of how the West was lost to the forces of secular humanism. Such doctrinal concerns don't exist for Rocío Martínez-Sampere and Jordi Domenech, who were born the year before Franco's death. For both...
Floridians could not have been caught more unaware by Tuesday's massive, afternoon-long blackout. Although temperatures have been unseasonably high this month, they were hardly torrid enough to overload the peninsula's air conditioners. It wasn't hurricane season, either, when tropical storms regularly knock out power lines. It was a tranquil, balmy afternoon by the beach - the sort of "paradise" so many thousands of people migrate here for each winter...