Military
... oppression; North Korea and China dispute the sovereignty of certain islands in Yalu and Tumen rivers; Military Demarcation Line within the 4-km wide Demilitarized Zone has separated North from South Korea ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/i_ti.html
military
... In 1993, KIM Young-sam became South Korea's first civilian president following 32 years of military rule. South Korea today is a fully functioning modern democracy. In June 2000, a historic ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_South/a_fg.html
military
... 20-30 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 24-28 months, depending on the military branch involved (to be reduced to 18 months beginning 2016); 18 years of age for ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_South/h_ml.html
Military
Military Demarcation Line within the 4-km wide Demilitarized Zone has separated North from South Korea since 1953; periodic incidents with North Korea in the Yellow Sea over the Northern Limiting Line ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_South/i_ti.html
military
... authorized a counterinsurgency campaign that resulted in massacres and massive expulsions of ethnic Albanians by Serbian military, police, and paramilitary forces. The international community tried to resolve the conflict peacefully, but MILOSEVIC ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/a_fg.html
military
NA years of age; universal (adult); note - males in the military or police are not allowed to vote; adult females were allowed to vote as of 16 May 2005; all voters must ...
www.exxun.com/Kuwait/d_gv.html
military
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; reserve obligation to age 40 with 1 month annual training; women have served in police forces since 1999 (2006)
www.exxun.com/Kuwait/h_ml.html
military
18 years of age for compulsory military service (2001)
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/h_ml.html
military
... LPA also has upgraded skills to respond to avian influenza outbreaks; there is no perceived external threat to the state and the LPA maintains strong ties with the neighboring Vietnamese military (2008
www.exxun.com/Laos/h_ml.html
military
18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished January 2007; under current law, every citizen is entitled to serve in the armed forces for life (2006)
www.exxun.com/Latvia/h_ml.html
military
... in Beirut against the Syrian presence ("the Cedar Revolution"), and Syria withdrew the remainder of its military forces in April 2005. In May-June 2005, Lebanon held its first legislative elections since ...
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/a_fg.html
military
18-30 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2007)
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/h_ml.html
military
... mutiny following a contentious election prompted a brief but bloody intervention by South African and Botswanan military forces under the aegis of the Southern African Development Community. Subsequent constitutional reforms restored relative ...
www.exxun.com/Lesotho/a_fg.html
military
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2008)
www.exxun.com/Lesotho/h_ml.html
military
... between the descendents of the original settlers and the inhabitants of the interior. In 1980, a military coup led by Samuel DOE ushered in a decade of authoritarian rule. In December 1989 ...
www.exxun.com/Liberia/a_fg.html
military
Demobilized former military officers
www.exxun.com/Liberia/d_gv.html
military
16 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2008)
www.exxun.com/Liberia/h_ml.html
military
... War II. Libya then passed to UN administration and achieved independence in 1951. Following a 1969 military coup, Col. Muammar Abu Minyar al-QADHAFI began to espouse his own political system, the ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/a_fg.html
military
none; note - following the September 1969 military overthrow of the Libyan government, the Revolutionary Command Council replaced the existing constitution with the Constitutional Proclamation in December 1969; in March 1977, Libya adopted ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/d_gv.html
military
Liechtenstein has no military forces, but is interested in European security policy and is an active member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
www.exxun.com/Liechtenstein/h_ml.html
military
contamination of soil and groundwater with petroleum products and chemicals at military bases
www.exxun.com/Lithuania/b_mp.html
military
19-45 years of age for compulsory military service; 18 years of age for volunteers; 12-month conscript service obligation (2006)
www.exxun.com/Lithuania/h_ml.html
military
17-25 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; soldiers under 18 are not deployed into combat or with peacekeeping missions; no conscription (2008)
www.exxun.com/Luxembourg/h_ml.html
military
no regular military forces
www.exxun.com/Macau/h_ml.html
military
18 years of age for voluntary military service (2007)
www.exxun.com/Macedonia/h_ml.html
military
18-50 years of age for compulsory military service; 18-month conscript service obligation (either military or equivalent civil service) (2006)
www.exxun.com/Madagascar/h_ml.html
