In South Korea, newly elected President Moon Jae-in, who is attempting to open lines of communication with Pyongyang, warned North Korea not to cross a "red line," adding that he's unsure what consequence the communist state will face if it continues to provoke other countries.
A nuclear Iran would provoke other countries to acquire nuclear weapons and put an end once and for all to the UN goal of a nuclear free Middle East.
Officials said the group had worked for months to come up with an effective plan for certifying and inspecting foreign goods that would not provoke foreign countries into retaliating or imposing protectionist measures that could hurt American exports.
In fact, ISIS has been known to provoke Western countries into reacting in ways that specifically disenfranchise Muslim communities as a means of facilitating recruitment.
Critics, however, say the OHSU technique needs rigorous and lengthy examination, and should provoke more countries to discuss what sorts of research should be pursued.
The protectionist instinct is growing and could get stronger: France's anti-competitive actions are provoking other countries to retaliate, risking a downward spiral.
Lebanese still complain that the PLO, which secured the camps under a deal brokered in 1969 by the Arab League, helped provoke their country's civil war by seizing other parts of Lebanon.
The growing consumer interest to discover street art is provoking many countries to compete for the title of the best street art in Europe.
Instead, the defiant senior cadre of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGCC) have publicly launched ballistic missiles several times after the nuclear deal, provoking other countries and potentially causing a regional conflagration.
But it allowed Washington and Seoul to take some action after months of struggling for ways to punish the North -- and try to deter it from further violence -- without provoking the country's erratic leader, Kim Jong-il, to launch new attacks.
