This article describes how the armistice between North and South Korea created an important nature sanctuary. The 1953 agreement to cease hostilities was not crafted with the environment in mind but it called for a 2.5 mile wide demilitarized zone, which would be owned by neither nation. Continuing diplomatic challenges have turned this temporary division into something more permanent. Despite its small size, the area encompasses a wide range of ecosystems that contains many endangered birds and animals.

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This study assessed the differences between perceptions held by disabled and nondisabled individuals toward different selection techniques. We compared the opinions of disabled (Ṉ = 79) and nondisabled (Ṉ = 93) persons about the fairness and job relatedness of seven selection methods: personality inventory, cognitive ability test, leaderless group discussion, work sample, biographical inventory, structured interview, and unstructured interview. The results indicated that disabled respondents viewed the structured interview as significantly less fair than the nondisabled respondents. The organizational implications of these results in terms of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act are discussed.

Between 1950 and 1953, the United Nations (UN) undertook two related tasks in Korea: the first was to assist the Republic of Korea in achieving military victory in its conflict with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea; the second was to support postcolonial economic and political reconstruction on the peninsula. In both, the UN promoted the implementation of modern agricultural and resource management practices, directly tying increased domestic farm and forestry productivity to military success. Through the lens of UN development projects, the Korean War, often characterized as a point of rupture, represented less a moment of disjuncture than it did a period of accelerated continuity. This article interweaves environmental, military, and development history to analyze several UN programs in the Republic of Korea between 1950 and 1953, demonstrating that the UN viewed resource development as among the most effective ways to wage and win a war.

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