The latest target demographic is Asian-Americans, with MTV Desi (for Indian-Americans), MTV Chi (for Chinese-Americans) and MTV K (for Korean Americans) all appearing during the past year.
"If at the end of the day people can tell the difference between Korean-Americans and Chinese-Americans, I consider that a major victory, " says Hong.
Korean-Americans are already hooked in Koreatown in Los Angeles.
At that time, and indeed ever since China's involvement in the Korean war, Americans disliked China even more than they disliked the Soviet Union.
In many places, Americans and our Korean allies were outgunned and outmanned, sometimes by as much as 20 to 1.
It said, among much else, that Americans in the Korean war were more likely to have been killed by their own mines than the enemy's.
So O'Neill is clear-eyed about selling Korean-made Hyundais to Americans.
Chinese trucks crossing the Friendship bridge built by the Japanese in 1943 and bombed by the Americans during the Korean war are filled with more than just the bare necessities of life.
Peter Feaver of Duke University, co-author of a forthcoming book on public opinion and war, says that since the Korean war 10% of Americans have opposed all military action (that was the share against war in Afghanistan).
Neither their fate, nor that of Americans captured during the Korean War, received attention.
But he also won many friends among Chinese, Korean, Filipino and other Asian Americans whose ancestral countries suffered under Japanese imperialism.
In 2002 North Korean officials privately admitted to the Americans what they were up to (before later denying it again publicly).
They will gain greater access to our markets and make American products more affordable for Korean households and businesses -- resulting in more choices for Korean consumers and more jobs for Americans.
But, after the initial phases of the Korean conflict went very badly for the Americans and South Koreans, MacArthur launched the Inchon landings, one of the most astounding invasions in history.
One of the main aims of North Korean foreign policy has been to engage the Americans without intermediaries.
In 1987 Korean firms were just beginning to compete with Americans and Japanese in computers and other high-end electronics.
Americans found the outcome of the Korean War deeply frustrating, coming so soon after our sweeping victories against formidable foes in WWII.
South of it stand 670, 000 South Korean troops, backed by 37, 000 Americans.
North Korean fears of nuclear attack may seem ridiculous to Americans who see U.S. intentions as obviously defensive, according to Hayes, but the view is different in North Korea.
The 1950--53 Korean War left a sour taste in the mouths of most Americans.
Along with most Americans he was expelled in 1950 at the start of the Korean war.
The Americans' last big amphibious operation dates back to 1950, in the Korean war.
Supplying these drugs to Americans is precisely the kind of prospect that would appeal to the North Korean leadership.
On his recent visit to America, he urged the Americans to ease their sanctions on North Korea (though expecting some North Korean gestures in return).
He and other Chinese visitors were disappointed to find little public acknowledgement of China's role in the Korean war of 1950-53, when hundreds of thousands of Chinese died fighting the Americans.
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Most Americans don't realize that underlying tensions with North Korea stem from the unresolved Korean War, which ended not with a peace treaty, but only with a temporary armistice.
Nowadays, studies show that an important number of young Americans wish to study in the Asia-Pacific region and to learn Chinese, Korean and Japanese so as to be prepared to run businesses in this promising region.
The assumption was that the Americans had withheld information vital to Japan's security and only released details after the North Korean missile had splashed down in the Pacific.
But no matter how strong your feelings about regional styles or particular places, I can tell you exactly where you can find the very best barbecue in existence (By BBQ I mean the collection of smoked ribs, pulled pork, chicken, brisket and related items that Americans collectively refer to as barbecue, not the global definition which includes everything from Argentineans skirt steak to Korean kalbi).
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