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Aaron Glantz reports from Korea:
 
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Documentary: The Fifty Year Stand-Off: North and South Korea
On July 27, 1953, North and South Korea officially ended their
hostilities after three years of a brutal war that claimed
the lives of more than 2 million people. But the Korean war
lives on. A tense demilitarized zone separates the two countries.
About 37,000 U.S. troops are stationed there. And, North Korea's
ambitions for a nuclear weapons program has taken on more
urgency since President Bush listed the country as part of
a so-called "Axis of Evil."
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On this edition of Making Contact, correspondents
Ngoc Nguyen and Aaron Glantz take an in-depth look at the
legacy of the Korean War and the on-going U.S. military presence.
Nguyen and Glantz were in Korea for the 50th anniversary of
the armistice.
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Private
Company Manages Bombing of North Korean Village
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MAEHYANG-RI, SOUTH KOREA - Six days a week,
up to 16 hours a day, the skies above this tiny fishing village,
fill up with F-15, F-16, and A-10 fighter jets, that hurl
bombs at a small island less than a mile away from the community.
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The pilots come from United States military
bases across the Pacific - as far north as Japan and Okinawa
to Thailand in the south and Guam in the east, to this rural
region just 50 miles south of Seoul on the west coast of the
country.
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Aaron Glantz reports from Vietnam:
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Villagers
Build Lives Out of Unexploded Bombs
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KHE SANH, Vietnam
(IPS) — Driving through Khe Sanh now, one could miss the
handful of monuments that mark the site of the bloodiest battle
of the American War, known to most of the world as the Vietnam
War.
These days, the town in Quang Tri province is bustling with
restaurants and cafes. Trucks carrying goods from the Lao border
plow through the town's main road, spewing fumes and kicking
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Aaron Glantz Reports from India:
 
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Ram
Singh: Shelter from the Storm
The scars of last spring’s riots are still fresh in Demai,
a small town off a main highway in Gujarat. Like the rest
of Gujarat, rioting Hindu mobs torched most Muslim-owned homes,
businesses, and places of worship--all with the help of the
police and the state government. But here in Demai, the story
was a bit different. Unlike most other cities and towns throughout
Gujarat, no Muslims were killed.
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India
Ethnic Tensions
In India, 80 percent of the population is Hindu, 11 percent
is Muslim. One year ago the groups engaged in the worst religious
violence to shake India in over a decade. Vicious riots left
well over a thousand Muslims dead. And as Aaron Glantz reports
from India, the repercussions from this brutality are still
very strong.
Violence
in Gujarat
India's prime minister Atal Bahari Vajpayee returned to New
Delhi today after a weekend of talks in London with British
prime minister Tony Blair -- a key ally in George Bush's war
on Iraq. Indian politicians are also using the rhetoric to
crack down and kill members of India's Muslim community at
home. Aaron Glantz reports from Gujarat, in India.
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Aaron Glantz Reports from Indonesia:
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Indonesian Maids are Victims of Rape (3:44)
Advocates of Indonesian migrant workers took their case to their
country's Parliament angry at that thousands of Indonesian maids
who travel to Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries who come
home victims of rape every year. From Jakarta, Aaron Glantz
has the story.
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Global Power Exposed: Part 9: Indonesian Military (3:58)
The Indonesian military announced today it will continue its
State of Emergency rule in Aceh for at least another six months.
The news comes at the same time as reports emerge that the Indonesian
army has killed 10 people in West Papua. In another province,
the Spice Islands of Maluku, the population is just starting
to recover from riots that resulted in the deaths of thousands.
As we continue our Global Power series, we look at the role
the Indonesian military played in those riots and the way the
America government supported it. From Maluku, Indonesia Aaron
Glantz reports
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