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- Chinese characters [r]: (simplified Chinese 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字) are symbols used to write varieties of Chinese and - in modified form - other languages; world's oldest writing system in continuous use. [e]
- Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
- Communism [r]: A political ideology, and also a system of government, according to which the means of production (including all large business concerns) should be controlled by the government. [e]
- Condoleeza Rice [r]: Academic political scientist, then Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and U.S. Secretary of State in the George W. Bush Administration [e]
- History [r]: Study of past human events based on written documents. [e]
- Iran-Iraq War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iraq War [r]: Invasion of Iraq by a coalition of countries, led by the United States, in 2003, and subsequent occupation [e]
- Japanese language [r]: (日本語 Nihongo), Japonic language spoken mostly in Japan; Japonic family's linguistic relationship to other tongues yet to be established, though Japanese may be related to Korean; written in a combination of Chinese-derived characters (漢字 kanji) and native hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) scripts; about 125,000,000 native speakers worldwide. [e]
- Japan [r]: East Asian country of about 3,000 islands; world's second-largest economy; population about 127,000,000. [e]
- Korea and Japan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Korean language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Korea [r]: Historical country and peninsula of northeastern Asia, comprising the states of North Korea and South Korea. [e]
- Liaoning [r]: A province in the North East of China. [e]
- Michael Scheuer [r]: Former head of the Osama bin Laden/al-Qaeda unit in the Counterterrorism Center of the Central Intelligence Agency; critical of U.S. policies but with insightful analysis on what he sees as a complex enemy [e]
- Mine (land warfare) [r]: A destructive device used in land warfare, which waits passively for a target and then detonates due to some action or physical property of the target [e]
- Nuclear weapon [r]: A weapon that produces extremely powerful explosions from principles involving subatomic particle reactions, rather than the chemical reactions among atoms that power conventional explosives [e]
- Panthera tigris (Tiger) [r]: Large carnivorous feline mammal of Asia, having a tawny coat with transverse black stripes, a member of the Felidae family, and the largest of the four 'big cats' in the genus Panthera. [e]
- Pyeongyang [r]: Largest city and capital of North Korea. [e]
- RIM-161 Standard SM-3 [r]: Theater anti-ballistic (i.e., midcourse and terminal phases) and anti-satellite missile, using hit-to-kill, launched from ships equipped with the AN/SPY-2 radar and AEGIS battle management system. [e]
- Russia [r]: A country in northern Eurasia, with an area of 17 million km² currently the largest on our planet. [e]
- South Korea [r]: A democratic republic in East Asia, occupying the southern half of the Korean peninsula; established in 1948 after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule. [e]
- Soviet support for Iran during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Soviet efforts to maintain a positive relationship during and after the Iran-Iraq War; they regarded Iran as more strategically important than Iraq [e]
- Sun Myung Moon [r]: (1920-), the founder and leader of the Unification Church and its associated organizations. [e]
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [r]: The principal worldwide agreement for controlling the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons technology, without inhibiting the peaceful use of nuclear energy [e]
- U.S. intelligence and global health [r]: Analysis by the United States intelligence community, in conjunction with more general health organizations, relating to issues of human survival from health-related issues [e]
- USS Eldorado (AGC-11) [r]: A Mount McKinley class amphibious force command ship named after a mountain range in Nevada. [e]
- USS Leo (AKA-60) [r]: U.S. Navy WWII and Korean War Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7) [r]: The first of the WWII class of dedicated amphibious command ships [e]
- USS Oglethorpe (AKA-100) [r]: WWII attack cargo ship of the Andromeda-class [e]
- USS Seminole (AKA-104) [r]: Tolland-class attack cargo ship in World War Two [e]
- USS Virgo (AKA-20) [r]: Andromeda-class attack cargo ship of the Second World War, later converted to an ammunition ship [e]
- USS Warrick (AKA-89) [r]: Serving in WWII, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Whiteside (AKA-90) [r]: Serving in WWII, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Winston (AKA-94) [r]: Serving in WWII, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Weapons that cause death or injury not primarily through kinetic energy of projectiles or the detonation of conventional explosives, but rather produce large-scale effects greater than possible with the same weight of explosives weapons; by means heat, blast and radiation from nuclear weapon; poisoning by chemical weapon; infectious disease by biological weapons; or acute or chronic radiation syndromes from radiological weapons. [e]
