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Ra Jong-yil
Ra Jong-yil ( ko, 라종일; born 1940) is a former South Korean ambassador who has authored books on politics concerning North Korea. Education Ra received a PhD at the University of Cambridge. Career Ra served as South Korea's ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2001 to 2003 and as its ambassador to Japan from 2004 to 2007. Works In 2013, Ra released a book about Kang Min-chul The Rangoon bombing of 9 October 1983, was an assassination attempt against Chun Doo-hwan, the fifth president of South Korea, in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar). The attempt was orchestrated by North Korea. Although Chun surviv ...the only person who ever admitted involvement with an attempt to assassinate the SouthKorean president in 1983whom Ra described as "one of the countless young men sacrificed in the long rivalry between the two Koreas and then forgotten". Ra's 2016 book, ''The Path Taken by Jang Song‑thaek: A Rebellious Outsider'', made claims that Kim J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
