This group sees mainland China as being similar to Franco's Spain in the 1960s, and South Korea during the 1970s when South Korea was run by corrupt, authoritarian regimes.

China's new leaders Hua Guofeng and Deng Xiaoping both visited North Korea in 1978, although they failed to reach a common understanding on relations with the Soviet Union ( Beijing was not on friendly terms with Moscow during the 1970s, while Pyongyang continued its usual balancing act ).

During the 1970s and 1980s, South Korea became a leading producer of ships, including oil supertankers, and oil-drilling platforms.

During the 1960s, South Korea was largely dependent on the United States to supply its armed forces, but after the elaboration of President Richard M. Nixon's policy of Vietnamization in the early 1970s, South Korea began to manufacture many of its own weapons.

Like Korea, Taiwan moved from cheap, labor-intensive manufactures, such as textiles and toys, into an expansion of heavy industry and infrastructure in the 1970s, and then to advanced electronics in the subsequent decade.

Japan used shipbuilding in the 1950s and 1960s to rebuild its industrial structure ; South Korea started to make shipbuilding a strategic industry in the 1970s, and China is now in the process of repeating these models with large state-supported investments in this industry.

The term began to be used circa 1970 when the Four Asian Tigers of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan rose to global prominence as NICs in the 1970s and 1980s, with exceptionally fast industrial growth since the 1960s ; all four economies have since graduated into advanced economies and high-income economies.

In the Republic of Korea, Westinghouse has been involved in the construction of new nuclear plants since the 1970s, and is now helping to bring a new plant on line at essentially the rate of one per year.

Examples include the United Kingdom for almost a decade after the end of World War II, North Korea, China during the 1970s and 1980s, Communist Romania during the 1980s, the Soviet Union in 1990-1991, and Cuba today.

South Korea remained one of the poorest countries in the world for over a decade, then after decades of authoritarian rule, and an industrial boom starting in the 1970s, emerged as a wealthy, high-income free market democracy.

While one species, the Burmese spineless eel ( Chaudhuria caudata ) was reported from the Inle Lake by Nelson Annandale in 1918, the others have been only recently reported ( since the 1970s ), all in the eastern Asia area, from India to Korea.

The Gyeongbu Line was extensively upgraded in parallel with the development of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway urban rapid transit system and the Korea Train Express ( KTX ) high-speed rail system from the 1970s.

Located directly across from Eighth Army headquarters is the Combined Forces Command and U. S. Forces Korea headquarters, a structure built in the early 1970s.

The 1970s were highlighted by government intervention into the media system in Korea.

The Sungri Motor Plant ( and associated workshops ) have been one of the few domestic sources of both low-cost replicas of foreign passenger cars and military-service trucks in North Korea ; developed through the massive militarization campaigns of Kim-Il Sung in the 1970s and 80s.

The name hantavirus is derived from the Hantan River area in South Korea, which provided the founding member of the group: Hantaan virus ( HTNV ), isolated in the late 1970s by Ho-Wang Lee and colleagues.

In the 1970s, Korea saw substantial industrial development, much of it centered in the Yeongnam region of which Gyeongju is a part.

In 2010, Kim visited Japan, where she met the families of Japanese people abducted by North Korea during the 1970s and 1980s who were forced to teach North Korean spies to disguise themselves as Japanese — some of whom, it was reported, may have trained Kim herself.

While MASH was a fairly faithful reflection of Hornberger's service in Korea, the sequels M * A * S * H Goes to Maine and M * A * S * H Mania were diverse representations of the " Swamp Gang's " post-Korea activities in the fictional town of Spruce Harbour, Maine, from 1953 to the 1970s.

Though hailed as a great success in the 1970s, the movement lost momentum during the 1980s as economic situation and political environment in South Korea changed rapidly.

The government-led movement with highly centralized organizations proved to be efficient in 1970s and early 80s, but it became less effective after Korea entered into more developed and industrialized stage.

In addition, South Korean statistics claim that, since the Korean Armistice in 1953, about 3, 800 people have been abducted in North Korea ( the vast majority in the late 1970s ), 480 of whom are still being held by North Korea.

** History: Planned in the 1960s and early 1970s, A-9 was to provide a fixed crossing over the Ottawa River.

He started his career playing for the youth teams of Farul Constanța in the 1970s, before being selected by the Romanian Football Federation to join the squad of Luceafărul București in 1980 for two years.

It was initially known as the International Amateur Athletics Federation but changed later its name to reflect that the sport had moved away from amateurism towards professionalism in the late 1970s.

The " Alberta Federation of Métis Settlement Associations " was established in the mid 1970s and provides a collective voice for the Métis Nation of Alberta.

Janet Harvey, president of the International Coach Federation, was quoted in a New York Times article about the growing practice of Life Coaching, in which she traces the development of coaching to the early 1970s Human Potential Movement and credited the teachings of Werner Erhard's " est Training ," the popular self-motivation workshops he designed and led in the ' 70's and early ' 80's.

The community, which numbered about 80, 000 as recently as the 1970s, has largely emigrated to Israel, the United States ( US ), the Russian Federation and Belgium ( in Antwerp ).

From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Slaughter had success in the National Wrestling Alliance, American Wrestling Association, and World Wrestling Federation.

A 1970s technical fiction book, The Starfleet Medical Manual, held that Andorians were the only known semi-insectoid race in Federation territory, with a limited exoskeleton and antennae used for both quadriscopic vision reception and focused hearing.

However, in the 1970s Mesić supported the nationalist Croatian Spring movement which called for Croatian equality within the Yugoslav Federation on economic, political and cultural levels.

The International Federation of Air Line Pilots ' Associations ( IFALPA ) had declared Monday 19 June 1972 ( the day after the accident ) as a worldwide protest strike against aircraft hijacking which had become commonplace in the early 1970s.

He came to prominence during the 1970s for leading the New South Wales Builders ' Labourers Federation ( BLF ) in the famous Green Bans, whereby the BLF led a successful campaign to protect the built and natural environment of Sydney from excessive and inappropriate development.

He attended the University of Waterloo in the 1970s, and served two terms as president of the Federation of Students, UW's student union, in 1973-1974.

The 1960s and 1970s saw major developments in collegiate wrestling, with the emergence of the United States Wrestling Federation ( USWF ) ( now known as USA Wrestling ( USAW )).

In the 1970s and 1980s he was an activist for the Federation of Socialist Unions of Polish Youth and the Socialist Union of Polish Youth, serving as its chairman from 1986 – 1989.

) In the early 1970s Ruane worked for Wrestling Enterprises ( of Birkenhead ), where he was billed as Haystacks Calhoun, after the American wrestling star William Calhoun who had wrestled under that name in NWA All-Star Wrestling and the World Wide Wrestling Federation.

In 1968, the Constitutional Law of Federation reinstated an official federal structure ( of the 1917 type ), but during the " Normalization period " in the 1970s, Gustáv Husák ( although a Slovak himself ) returned most of the control to Prague.

These ponies are descended from a group of five ponies brought to the Holy Isle to when it was owned by the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare in the 1970s to form a nature reserve.

* Don Wright, as president of the Alaska Federation of Natives during the early 1970s, played a major role in the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

Attempts to close the market in the early 1970s were scuttled by bans conducted by the Builder Labourers ' Federation and community groups.

Though FIFA did not officially recognize the USVI team as affiliated until 1992, the Virgin Islands federation was founded in the 1970s by Trinidad native Robert T. Wills who helped build the base of the USVI Soccer Federation as it is known today.

He was actively involved in Winnipeg's labour movement, serving as President of the Winnipeg Labour Council in the early 1970s ( at a time when the WLC was losing members to the Manitoba Federation of Labour ).

He was also a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation in the 1970s.

By the 1970s, the Histadrut, Israel labour Federation, controlled a significant number of corporations, including Israel ’ s largest bank – Bank Hapoalim ( literally the Worker ’ s Bank ).

Through the early 1970s, he served as Vice-President of the Okinawan Judo Federation and President of the Okinawa Prefecture Karate-do Federation.