The attacks did happen here and created a war mentality.
But when a public turns from a war mentality to a peace mentality, it turns with a vengeance — even though in this case no armistice has been declared.
"North Koreans live in a war mentality, and this anti-American propaganda is war-time propaganda," said Tatiana Gabroussenko, an expert in North Korean propaganda who teaches at Korea University in Seoul.
This would grant more labor rights to our officers, releasing them from a military code of conduct and discipline that often involves humiliation and training infused with a war mentality.
People who are seriously worried about climate change — and I include most climate scientists in this — talk about how we need a "war mentality" to mobilize people to deal with the problem — create a new energy infrastructure, etc.
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Do you agree with China Daily that Mr. Romney's proposed policies are too "pugnacious" and smack of a return to "a Cold War mentality"?
The national parties are furious with the states for jumbling the nomination process.Hacked offChina denied, as a reflection of a "cold-war mentality", reports that its armed forces were behind "cyberattacks", in which hackers had tried to penetrate the computer network of the Pentagon.
The principal attack came through an editorial on Monday in China Daily, the state-run newspaper, which called Mr. Romney's policies "an outdated manifestation of a Cold War mentality" that "endorses the 'China threat' theory and focuses on containing China's rise".
In a sign that Beijing could be reluctant to take a more hardline stance on North Korea, state news agency Xinhua said it was "unrealistic to rely merely on China to press the DPRK to abandon its nuclear program, as long as the U.S. continues an antagonistic approach wrought from a Cold War mentality".
China, which did not attend the Vancouver meeting, said on Wednesday the gathering showed a Cold War mentality and would only undermine a settlement of the North Korea problem.
