* 1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.

U. of North Carolina Press 1998.

Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance genre in video games.

Republished by Lit Verlag, MŸster, Germany in 1998 and distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers.

The is Nintendo's successor to the 8-bit Game Boy handheld game console, and was released on October 21, 1998 in Japan, November 18, 1998 in North America, November 23, 1998 in Europe and November 27, 1998 in Australia.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

In 1965 Genscher was elected on the North Rhine-Westphalian FDP list to the West German parliament and remained a member of parliament until his retirement in 1998.

It is speculated by some intelligence agencies that North Korea is developing an ICBM ; two tests of somewhat different developmental missiles in 1998 and 2006 were not fully successful.

Despite the 31 August 1998 North Korean missile test which overflew the Home Islands, Japan has maintained its support for the Korean Energy Development Organization ( KEDO ) and the Agreed Framework, which seeks to freeze the North Korean nuclear program.

He was President of Germany from 1 July 1999 until 30 June 2004, and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 1998.

In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.

Combined with a series of natural disasters, this led to the North Korean famine, which lasted from 1994 to 1998 and killed an estimated 800, 000 to 3, 500, 000 people.

North Korea's fifth and current constitution was approved and adopted in September 1998, replacing the one previously adopted in 1972.

Moreover, the nationwide land leveling and rezoning campaign initiated by Kim Jong Il in Kangwon province in May 1998 and in North Pyongan province in January 2000 facilitated the construction of provincial and county fiber optic lines, which were laid by tens of thousands of KPA soldier-builders and provincial shock brigade members mobilized for the large-scale public works projects designed to rehabilitate the hundreds of thousands of hectares of arable lands devastated by the natural disasters in the late 1990s.

Radio broadcast stations: AM 9, FM 4 ( 1998 ), shortwave 1 ( Radio Netherlands transmits programs to North and South America from there )

The first attempt at underwater exploration of the North Pole was made by a Russian firefighter and diver Andrei Rozhkov with a support of Diving Club of Moscow State University on April 22, 1998 but ended in fatality.

For example, in the 1998 North Carolina Writing Assessment, less than 1 percent of fourth graders received the highest possible score for writing content.

As of 1998, two special issues of this magazine had addressed Pentecostalism's roots: " Spiritual Awakenings in North America " ( issue 23, 1989 ) and " Camp Meetings & Circuit Riders: Frontier Revivals " ( issue 45, 1995 )

PLAN task groups also paid visits to Indonesia in 1995 ; North Korea in 1997 ; New Zealand, Australia, and the Philippines in 1998 ; Malaysia, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and Canada in 2000 ; and India, Pakistan, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand in 2001.

Despite some early success, the wolves were relocated to North Carolina in 1998, ending the effort to reintroduce the species to the Park.

The firm made no U. S. buys in 1998, but doubled its employee base with purchases including Spain's largest retail insurance broker, Gil y Carvajal, and the formation of Aon Korea, the first non-Korean firm of its kind to be licensed there.

* Endicott, Stephen and Edward Hagerman, The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea, Indiana University Press ( 1998 ).

Despite the Sunshine Policy and efforts at reconciliation, the progress was complicated by North Korean missile tests in 1993, 1998, 2006 and 2009., relationships between North and South Korea were very tense ; North Korea had been reported to have deployed missiles, ended its former agreements with South Korea, and threatened South Korea and the United States not to interfere with a satellite launch it had planned.

In 1998, the Unification Movement launched its operations in North Korea with the approval of the Government of South Korea, which had prohibited business relationships between North and South before ; and built a church there.

* Kim Dae Jung served one term ( 1976 – 1979 ) and in 1980 was exiled to the United States, but returned in 1985 and became President of South Korea in 1998.

Tenrikyo has over 37000 units in Japan and 941 units outside of Japan ( as of 1998 ), including over 380 units in Brazil, over two hundred units in North America ( 199 units in the United States ), 150 units in South Korea ( as of 1998 ), 79 units in Taiwan, 75 units in Hawai ( as of 1998 )

In 1998, focus shifted back to national missile defense when Defense secretary William Cohen proposed spending an additional $ 6. 6 billion on ballistic missile defense programs to build a national system to protect against attacks from North Korea or accidental launches from Russia or China.

Famous coaches such as Guus Hiddink ( who between stints at PSV coached the Dutch national team to a fourth-place finish in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and South Korea to a similar fourth place in the 2002 World Cup ) have managed the team over the years and have brought considerable successes to the club.

* Wonju, South Korea, 1998

* – de facto since 1994 ; in 1998 the National Defence Commission of North Korea was proclaimed highest authority.

Kim Dae-jung ( 3 December 1925 – 18 August 2009 ) was 8th President of the Republic of Korea from 1998 to 2003, and the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

When he was sworn in as the eighth President of South Korea on 25 February 1998, it marked the first time in Korean history that the ruling party peacefully transferred power to a democratically elected opposition victor.

* Kim Jong Il Brief History, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang, North Korea, 1998, Hardcover, 149 pages

Many countries such as Korea ( Kim Yeong-seo, 2009 ), Japan ( Kubota, 1998 ) and China ( Kirkpatrick & Zhichang, 2002 ) frame education policies to teach at least one foreign language at the primary and secondary school levels.

Non-signatories India and Pakistan last tested nuclear weapons in 1998.

A consensus began to emerge after the results of a DNA analysis in 1998, which showed no match between the Carr male line, proposed for more than 150 years as the father ( s ), and the one Hemings descendant tested.

" Beverley and Anna's great-grandson John Weeks Jefferson was the Eston Hemings descendant whose DNA was tested in 1998 ; it matched the Y-chromosome of the Thomas Jefferson male line.

Has been tested with a satellite payload in 1998.

In 1998, 21 % of adults tested at a literacy level of 1, one being the lowest, compared to the national average of 22 %.

A study by Albert Mehrabian, reported in The Journal of Applied Social Psychology ( 1998 ), tested the relative importance of the bandwagon ( rally around the winner ) effect versus the underdog ( empathic support for those trailing ) effect.

DVB-T has repeatedly been tested from RTÉ Network Limited's Three Rock Mountain transmitter, with relatively long tests in 1998 and 2001, and shorter tests in 2004, with a single multiplex carrying the four Irish analogue terrestrial channels, and Tara Television while it was in existence, on both UHF ( channel 26 ) and VHF ( channel D ).

It was tested from 1998 to 2003 and added to the military arsenal on July 7, 2003, with an official unveiling by Khamenei on July 20.

In February 1998, the magazine tested pet food and claimed that Iams dog food was nutritionally deficient.

In 1998, he tested positive for androstenedione, an over-the-counter supplement ( famously used by Mark McGwire ) that is banned in track and field.

Non-signatories India and Pakistan last tested nuclear weapons in 1998.

Congestion pricing or urban toll schemes were implemented to enter the downtown area using ETC technology and / or cameras and video recognition technology to get the plate numbers in several cities around the world: urban tolling in Norway's three major cities: Bergen ( 1986 ), Oslo ( 1990 ), and Trondheim ( 1991 ) ( see Trondheim Toll Scheme ); Singapore in 1998 ( see Singapore ’ s Electronic Road Pricing ), as an upgrade to the world's first successful congestion pricing scheme implemented with manual control in 1975 ( see also Singapore's Area Licensing Scheme ); Rome in 2001 as an upgrade to the manual zone control system implemented in 1998 ; London in 2003 and extended in 2007 ( see London congestion charge ); Stockholm, tested in 2006 and made the charge permanent in 2007 ( see Stockholm congestion tax ); and in Valletta, the capital city of Malta, since May 2007.

In a subsequent study the next year ( Thomas MG et al., 1998 ), the team increased the number of Y-STR markers tested to six, as well as testing more SNP markers.

On Junoon's very first tour of India the band was in New Delhi when India tested its nuclear weapons at Pokhran ( May 14, 1998 ).

Following the publication of the report, the Labour education secretary David Blunkett announced the introduction of means tested tuition fees to begin in September 1998.

EuroNCAP tested the first generation Volvo S80, running from 1998 to 2003.

Pakistan tested plutonium capability in the sixth nuclear test, codename Chagai-II, on 30 May 1998 at Kharan Desert.

Pakistan's first nuclear tests were made in May 1998, when six warheads were tested under codename Chagai-I and Chagai-II.

In late 2004 his team published an article in Science that tested multiproxy methods such as those used by Mann, Bradley and Hughes, 1998, often called MBH98, or Mann and Jones to obtain the global temperature variations in the past 1000 years.

He won the Australian Open in 1998, and tested positive for the banned substance nandrolone following a match at Wimbledon later the same year.

In December 1998, it was publicly revealed that Korda had tested positive for the banned substance, nandrolone, following his quarter final match at 1998 Wimbledon against Tim Henman.

It is assumed ( Krebs, 1998 ) that all individuals have the same probability of being captured in the second sample, regardless of whether they were previously captured in the first sample ( with only two samples, this assumption cannot be tested directly ).