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Articles about the Asian continent
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Militant protests greet Korea-U.S. FTA negotiations
Militant protests have taken place daily during the fourth round of negotiations for the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. The negotiations…
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Two paths emerge in Korea crisis
Two divergent paths have emerged as possibilities for the next step in the crisis with North Korea. One is the…
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Opposing class forces face off in post-monarchy Nepal
This article first appeared in the October 2006 issue of Socialism and Liberation magazine. In April 2006, the Nepalese people…
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Korea crisis: From 1994 until today
In 1994, war between the United States and North Korea was narrowly averted by a high-level diplomatic effort undertaken by…
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Could there be a new Korean War?
Is it possible that there could be a new war between North Korea and the United States? The answer is…
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U.S. planned nuclear strike on North Korea during Korean War
The United States has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world. It has the largest number of nuclear…
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Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia: A brief history of ‘Enlarging the problem’
With its confrontational posturing and bellicose language towards a host of other countries—especially Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela—the…
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The U.S. military machine: North Korea bomb test in perspective
North Korea has proclaimed proudly that it carried out its first nuclear weapons test. The government in Pyongyang has announced…
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North Korea has the right to test and possess nuclear weapons
The capitalist media is in a frenzy about the Oct. 9 nuclear test reportedly carried out by North Korea. They…
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Thailand: The class character of the coup
In Thailand, an elected, "populist" leader with peasant support was deposed on Sept. 19 in a military coup tied to…
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