Modernizations

Not only will air traffic (probably) rise, airport officials here hope 2021 will cut the ribbon on a concourse modernizations project they launched in 2014.

This is relevant for Kim Jong Un’s future, since all these recent modernizations of North Korea’s armed forces are not merely for military reasons.

Each of the four frigates to be upgraded have the work at the Garden Island shipyard in Sydney, Australia, with the modernizations lasting between 18 months and two years.

However, along with later modernizations under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (in power 1964-1982), it accelerated the development of the agricultural sector, which remains the source of livelihood for a large percentage of Kazakhstan's population.

The overall goal of the one-child policy was to keep the total population within 1.2 billion through the year 2000, on the premise that the Four Modernizations program would be of little value if population growth was not brought under control.