Hyun says social instability has increased in North Korea, so leader Kim Jong-il needs to continue to reinforce his domestic power base.

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"How it is impacting Pakistan and especially in the areas of drug trafficking, in the areas of corruption that exist in Afghanistan which have given power to a lot of warlords which make Afghanistan in a state of perpetual instability."

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By comparison, power plants typically take several minutes to respond to instability on the power grid.

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They get their initial power and instability from the difference in temperature between the very hot Sahara air and the substantially cooler air along the coast of the Gulf of Guinea.

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Janata Dal's latest problems reflect the inherent instability of the coalition, which came to power in May last year under Gujral's predecessor, H.

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