Cai Jian, deputy director of the Centre for Korean Studies at Shanghai's Fudan University, disagrees and tells Global Times that a large-scale military conflict is unlikely to break out because North Korea's threats are largely just psychological warfare against the US and South Korea.

BBC: China media: Views on North Korea

Bryant Webber and colleagues analyzed autopsy reports and available health data from 3, 832 service members who died of combat or unintentional injuries in Afghanistan and Iraq and compared their findings to similar studies performed during the Korean and Vietnam wars. 8.5% of the newest group had evidence of coronary atherosclerosis, compared with 77% in the Korean War group and 45% in the Vietnam War group.

FORBES: Autopsy Studies Find Large And Dramatic Drop In Early Atherosclerosis Over 60 Years

One of the largest epidemiological studies of autism identified it in 2.64%% of South Korean schoolchildren, and anecdotal assertions to the contrary, autism does exist in countries like Cambodia.

FORBES: Autism Is Not Just An American Thing

Korean sentiment toward Japan has deteriorated, according to a graduate school student of Asia-Pacific studies in the Wednesday edition of The Korea Herald News.

CNN: Fast sales for Japanese history textbook

Chang Yong-seok, senior researcher at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University, suggested that the announcement was designed to remind the South Korean public that there is an ever-present danger from the North and to shore up support for the government's North Korean policy.

WSJ: Pyongyang Fires More Missiles

Mr. Jung, who attended the Korean federation's Stanford program, says he wanted to learn about risk management and creating brand value through cases studies of business successes and failures.

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