PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) North Korea on Tuesday urged all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate, saying the two countries are on the verge of a nuclear war.

NPR: NKorea Urges Foreigners To Vacate South Korea

The Bosnian Serbs, keen to maintain their independence, have been especially obstructive but are now on the verge of their own civil war.

ECONOMIST: A choice of devils

It was a time of jarring social and political turmoil in America: the pain of the civil rights movement still fresh, U.S. troops finally home from an unpopular war in Vietnam, a scandal known as Watergate on the verge of toppling the most powerful man in the free world.

NPR: 40 Years Ago, Irish-Tide Played Game For The Ages

At earlier stages in Bosnia's war, when Muslim strongholds like Gorazde or Bihac had been on the verge of falling, America had worked (without the promise of ground troops) to galvanise its allies insisting that battle-plans be drawn up, and threats of bombing be issued, so as to warn off the Serbs.

ECONOMIST: Washington chronicle

Kennedy killed so that Johnson could prosecute the war in Vietnam more vigorously than the peace-loving Kennedy who was on the verge of pulling out.

ECONOMIST: Letters