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...Everything will be in ashes, not just a sea of fire, if our advanced preemptive strike once begins.' NORTH KOREAN STATE NEWS AGENCY, threatening South Korea with destruction. Relations between the countries have soured over North Korea's continuing intransigence over its nuclear program and the South's tougher negotiating tactics...
...headed. One morning in March, Pasquale Salandria, taking a break from his work on a city clean-up crew, gestures toward two new seaside cafés and a disco. "Ten years ago there was almost nothing here," he says. Indeed, the town of 3,000 now seems to strike a nice balance between dynamism and coastal pleasantness, favoring local sports facilities, for instance, over outsized tourist lodgings...
...also expressed skepticism about the leader’s ability to effect change in the country’s dialogue with the Mainland. “While [he] could potentially improve relations between Taiwan and the PRC, it remains to be seen how much of a compromise he can strike without undermining the interests in sovereignty on the Taiwanese side.” Still, Yeh lauded the process, if not its winner. “What strikes me is how much people are getting more comfortable about voting people in and voting people out of office: It?...
...democrats in the role of new hard-line nationalists; and Ataturk, whose biggest aspiration was for Turkey to join the "civilized West," would no doubt be stunned to hear that his military is skeptical of entry into the European Union. Meanwhile, investors are spooked, leading Turkish unions are on strike over a proposed social security reform law, unemployment is over 10%, and the Kurdish conflict is brewing. "This is a struggle in the palace," says political scientist Hakan Yilmaz. "It has nothing to do with the people." But if Turkey's polarization increases further, it could have profound consequences both...
...Jiang's attempts to marshal modern history to conform to his ideas result in some passages that will strike many readers as far-fetched, if not downright silly. They also prevent a simple enjoyment of the book - its pleasant pastoral passages are sooner or later interrupted by jarring expositions that wouldn't look out of place in a 19th century manual of eugenics. Here's one from the novel's main character, Chen Zhen...