Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...region as a counterweight to China. The profit motive drives America's wish for relations with Vietnam. Anyone susceptible to the sentimental image of the U.S. and Vietnam as lion and lamb lying down together can be cured by a visit to the war museum in Saigon, where the propaganda about American atrocities is ham-handed and offensive, and where G.I. gear is sold at souvenir stands. A great deal of history stands between the U.S. and Vietnam, as between the U.S. and China. Ideology stands between us too. Communism is dead in both China and Vietnam, but authoritarianism thrives...
...week. No sooner had the Russian President left Moscow on another of his notorious unannounced holidays -- this time to the Black Sea resort of Sochi -- than rumors filled the capital that his parlous state of health had inspired a coup plot. The crisis evaporated when the Kremlin launched a propaganda blitz to demonstrate that, at least for the moment, Yeltsin was still in command of his faculties. But the larger question of whether the Russian leader is in command of the country remains wide open...
...grisly threat, replayed over and over on South Korean television, was a sharp reminder of the acrimony growing between North Korea and most of the world after Pyongyang once again refused to submit to international nuclear inspection. The North cranked up its noisy propaganda machine to proclaim the Korean peninsula on "the brink of war" and pointedly reminded the U.S. not to forget that 54,246 American soldiers died in the Korean...
There are signs that Pyongyang is trying hard not to deepen the crisis. Its talk of destroying Seoul may scare the uninitiated, but this "is not particularly unusual" for North Korean propaganda, says Ezra Vogel, the CIA's national intelligence officer for East Asia. In a statement by a Foreign Ministry spokesman that the U.S. considered authoritative, Pyongyang only vaguely threatened to withdraw from the nonproliferation treaty if Team Spirit resumed in 1994 and other Western pressures were applied -- but it did not denounce Washington's decision to send Patriots...
...South Korea, the fine gradations of Northern propaganda were lost in a wave of pessimism about the chances of finding a peaceful accommodation with a country still preaching war. The civilian government of President Kim Young Sam came to power believing its military predecessors had manufactured tensions with the North to prop up their own misrule. Kim's ministers spoke in rosy tones about how they would vanquish ideology and unite the two countries. Now, says a Seoul official, "the romantic view is gone." Kim has shelved plans to encourage investment in the North, toughened the South's military stance...