Sentences with phrase «by communist north»

In many interviews Maathai claimed that her years in the United States had a profound effect on her, especially since she was exposed to the many demonstrations against the Vietnam War (1954 — 75; a controversial war in which the United States aided South Vietnam in its fight against a takeover by Communist North Vietnam).

South Koreans vocally attribute the freedom they have today to the war veterans» sacrifices, knowing that their democracy would not be possible had they been taken over by the communist North.

Not exact matches

China's Global Times newspaper, which is published by the Communist Party, called on Japan, South Korea and the U.S. to immediately lift all unilateral sanctions on North Korea.

The United States stations 28,500 troops in South Korea as a legacy of the Cold War conflict, which pitted the South, the United States and United Nations forces against the communist North, backed by China and Russia.

All the «harm done by religion», pales in comparison to the true harm done by atheism and scientism... just see Mao's secular Communist revolution in China (millions of Christians killed, churches outlawed), Hitler's science / eugenics - based «building of a better man», Stalinism, Castro's Cuba, or Kim's North Korea.

Supported by Mao, and given the green - light by Stalin, the North Korean People's Army (NKPA) swept across the 38th parallel aiming to unite all Koreans under the communist government of Kim Il - Sung.

Yet it is well known that violences have been committed in the north (especially against the Vietnamese Catholics) and that after communist rule was established in North Vietnam its atrocities claimed more victims than were claimed by the actualnorth (especially against the Vietnamese Catholics) and that after communist rule was established in North Vietnam its atrocities claimed more victims than were claimed by the actualNorth Vietnam its atrocities claimed more victims than were claimed by the actual war.

It's not so much that Communism itself is evil (a form of it was practiced on a small scale by religious communities in North America in the 19th century), but that Communist states tended to wind up as authoritarian and repressive dictatorships.

During the invasion, Deng remained in the area controlled by the Communists in the north, where he assumed the role of deputy political director of the three divisions of the restructured Communist army.

[citation needed] Some members of the WRP sympathetic to North, led by David Hyland, left the WRP in 1986 to form the International Communist Party, based in Sheffield.

While the communist North Koreans can't even build a bicycle, the South Koreans - led by the country's largest conglomerate, Hyundai - are now proving to be major players in the global car business.

Her chilling impressions of a dreary, muffled, and depleted land are juxtaposed with a uniquely to - the - point history of how North Korea became an industrialized Communist nation supported by the Soviet Union and China and ruled by Kim Il Sung, then collapsed catastrophically into poverty, darkness, and starvation under the dictator's son, Kim Jong Il.

Lawrence Bradshaw's Karl Marx Memorial (1956), commissioned by the British Communist Party to decorate Marx's grave in Highgate Cemetery, north London, became a site for political pilgrimage, vandalism and even bomb attacks.

JIN JOO CHAE: From left, «Choco Pie with Capitalist Cream (Milk Chocolate),» (milk chocolate and chocolate syrup on North Korean newspaper); «Choco Pie with Communist Cream (Semi-Sweet Chocolate),» (semi-sweet chocolate and chocolate syrup on North Korean newspaper); and «Choco Pie with Marshmallow Cream (Bittersweet Chocolate),» (bittersweet chocolate and chocolate syrup on North Korean newspaper) all 2014 by Jin Joo Chae at Julie Meneret Contemporary Art in New York.