Since the Korean Armistice Agreement ended the armed conflict that existed during the active part of the Korean War in 1953, leaving a de-facto truce in place ever since, the North Korean government has been largely isolationist, becoming one of the world's most authoritarian societies.

After that, the world's armed forces had less reason to requisition rebreather patents submitted by civilians, and sport diving automatic and semi-automatic mixture rebreathers start to appear.

This helps to quantify and qualify such statements as " China and India maintain the largest armed forces in the World " or that " the U. S. Military is considered to be the world's strongest ".

Under Savimbi's leadership, UNITA proved especially effective militarily before and after independence, becoming one of the world's most effective armed resistance movements of the late 20th century.

After that, the world's armed forces had less reason to requisition civilian rebreather patents, and automatic and semi-automatic recreational diving rebreathers started to appear.

An armada of horned humanoid aliens known as Boazanians invade earth and launch their " beast fighters " all over the world, defeating most of the world's armed forces including the US military.

This clash between the Roman world's two main religions was for the most part merely an academic debate, without threats of armed uprisings, although small-scale violence was widespread.

By 2132, advanced robotic soldiers known as Bio-Mechs had replaced humans in the armed forces of the world's nations.

A group of scientists led by Dr. Stuart Gordon Power ( Bruce Gray ) began working on an advanced supercomputer capable of overriding the control systems employed by the world's armed forces to operate the Bio-Mechs, and thus stop them, bringing an end to war.

The style is so named as it is traditionally the first haircut given to new male recruits during initial entry into many of the world's armed forces, but most particularly in the United States.

Today the Republic of India maintains the world's third largest armed forces with over a million troops strong.

Today, the British Army is deployed in many of the world's war zones as part of both Expeditionary Forces and in United Nations Peacekeeping forces.

Once regarded as the world's " most optimistic ," Kibaki's regime quickly lost much of its power because it became too closely linked with the discredited Moi forces.

Nunn joined forces with Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse and built the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, the world's first commercial-grade alternating-current power plant, near Telluride.

Under Obote, the security forces had one of the world's worst human rights records.

The Soviet effort to dominate Afghanistan has brought Soviet military forces to within 300 miles of the Indian Ocean and close to the Straits of Hormuz, a waterway through which most of the world's oil must flow.

Among the world's strongest and most innovative maritime forces during the American Civil War, the Navy quickly shrank after the end of hostilities, as national energies were redirected toward settling the West and rebuilding the war-ravaged South.

: The USAF Weapons School teaches graduate-level instructor courses that provide the world's most advanced training in weapons and tactics employment to officers of the combat air forces.

Today the USAF Weapons School is unequaled in providing the world's most advanced training in weapons and tactics employment to officers of the combat air forces.

For most of the first year the focus was on the naval campaign, as Chile struggled to establish a sea-based resupply corridor for its forces in the world's driest desert.

LGBs are one of the most common and widespread guided bombs, used by a large number of the world's air forces.

These forces create corresponding motions or currents in the world's oceans.

Tracing its roots back from 1624 it is one of the world's oldest naval forces and historically played a key part in establishing the French colonial empire.

Each side continued to aim thousands of nuclear warheads atop intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) at each other's cities, maintain submarines with long-range nuclear weapon capability ( Submarine-launched ballistic missiles or SLBMs ) in the world's oceans, keep hundreds of nuclear-armed aircraft on constant alert, and guard contentious borders in Korea and Europe with large ground forces.

In the world's air forces, modern navigators are frequently tasked with weapon systems employment and co-pilot type duties depending on the type, model and series of aircraft.

Dance of Demons is the finale, in which Gord and Gellor enter the Abyss on a mission from the world's most powerful forces of Balance, to retrieve the remaining Theoparts.

The GIUK gap was particularly important to the British Royal Navy, as any attempt by northern European forces to break into the open Atlantic would have to do so either through the heavily defended English Channel, which is also one of the world's busiest seaways, or through one of the exits on either side of Iceland.

UFG is the world's largest computerized command and control exercises, focusing on how U. S. and South Korean forces would defend against a North Korean attack.

" He noted as an example that aircraft carriers " are probably the country's best limited war capability initially because they are deployed in the world's trouble zones and they have on-the-spot ability to react "; yet, he added, they could contribute to the strategic offensive forces during general war.

All of the world's major powers maintain substantial maritime forces to provide a global presence, with the largest nations possessing aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and advanced anti-air defense systems.

While escaping from their enemy forces, Jack is captured by dataDyne, the world's biggest corporation.

Land Rover Defender vehicles have been used by many of the world's military forces, including the US in some limited capacity, following experience with the vehicle during the first Gulf War, where US forces found the British Army's vehicles to be more capable and better suited to operation in urban areas and for air-lifting than the Humvee.

Using launch systems presently available, we are developing satellites to scout the world's weather ; ;

Peanuts are the world's second most important legume.

As autumn starts its annual sweep, few Americans and Canadians realize how fortunate they are in having the world's finest fall coloring.

In most of the world's jurisdictions, the professional and commercial uses of the terms " architect " and " landscape architect " are legally protected.

Although there are variations from place to place, most of the world's architects are required to register with the appropriate jurisdiction.

Although most aspirated obstruents in the world's language are stops and affricates, aspirated fricatives such as, or have also been documented in a few Tibeto-Burman languages, in some Oto-Manguean languages and in the Siouan language Ofo.

The BVI are known as one of the world's greatest sailing destinations, and charter sailboats are a very popular way to visit less accessible islands.

The world's best are a match for the best club level sighted bowlers.

Bahá ' í notions of progressive religious revelation result in their accepting the validity of most of the world's religions, whose founders and central figures are seen as Manifestations of God.

As an illustration of this problem, when official data for all the world's countries are added up, exports exceed imports by almost 1 %; it appears the world is running a positive balance of trade with itself.

Furthermore, China, the Middle East, central Europe and Africa are absorbing more of the world's imports which in the end may result in a world economy that is more evenly balanced.

The world's largest animal, the blue whale, and fastest animal, the peregrine falcon, are chordates.

Canada and the United States are currently the world's largest trading partners, share the world's longest border, and have significant interoperability within the defence sphere.

The world's largest state-owned enterprises are traded on the public markets and kept in good health by large institutional investors.

However, the distinction between consonant and vowel is not always clear cut: there are syllabic consonants and non-syllabic vowels in many of the world's languages.

Banknotes are mostly paper, but Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation developed the world's first polymer currency in the 1980s that went into circulation on the nation's bicentenary in 1988.

Several of the world's capital cities are planned cities, notably Washington, D. C., in the United States, Canberra in Australia, and Brasília in Brazil.

Coral reefs, whose polyps are rich in endosymbiotic algae, support some of the world's most productive ecosystems, and protect vegetation in tidal zones and on shorelines from strong currents and tides.

The world's top 10 association croquet players as of May 2012 are Reg Bamford ( South Africa ), Robert Fulford ( England ), Robert Fletcher ( Australia ), David Maugham ( England ), Toby Garrison ( New Zealand ), Aaron Westerby ( New Zealand ), Paddy Chapman ( New Zealand ), Jamie Burch ( England ), Greg Bryant ( New Zealand ) and Ben Rothman ( USA ).

These are the world's biggest censuses and over 6 million enumerators were engaged in the 2000 and 2010 censuses.

Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.

Some effects of alcohol intoxication are central to alcohol's desirability as a beverage and its history as the world's most widespread recreational drug.