2. F.M.D (Foot-and-mouth disease)
1) Definition
Foot-and-mouth disease is an infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including domestic and wild bovid.
2) Clinical signs
The disease is characterized by high fever that declines rapidly after two or three days; blisters inside the mouth that lead to excessive secretion of stringy or foamy saliva and
To Guarantee “National Security”
- Security threat from the US
- Deter a preemptive attack
“Bargaining Chip”
- Economic/energy aid
- Normalization of US-NK relationship
- Woo, Seongji “Pyongyang and the World: North Korea’s Perspective on International Relations under Kim Jong Il.” pp. 7
- 정창현, 2006, “핵과 국제정치, 북한은 왜 핵을 가지려 하
Pre- Gorbachev Soviet- Vietnames Discord
To answer the aforesaid question, we need evidence, above all, from the vietnamese and Russian archives, but it may also be useful to study the declassified reports of the East European Communist diplomats who were accredited to Hanoi in the 1980s. Namely, the Hungarian diplomats whose reports I read managed to collect an impressive amount of confiden
November, 2009
Jeffrey Bader, the senior director in the National Security Council, said in a speech that arms sales to Taiwan would continue.
The U.S.’ one China policy based on the three U.S.-China
Joint Communiques and the Taiwan Relations Act
The U.S. doesn’t support Taiwan independence and is opposed
to unilateral attempts by either sides of the Strait.
The
diplomatic and military factors produced such a strong effect on the pre-reform Vietnamese economy, could they have influenced the genesis of doi moi, too? This question is of great practical importance, since if the Vietnamese reform program was at least partly sharped by external circumstances, it might be difficult to adopt the methods of doi moi in a country whose foreign relations awe too di