The reclusive nation of Turkmenistan, a land tightly managed by its sprawling intelligence apparatus and all but closed to outsiders, has become inundated with drug users in recent years, Turkmen citizens, foreign diplomats and drug control officers said.
Cha said that Russia's objectives in maintaining ties with North Korea are centered on largely commercial endeavors, including a long-term strategic goal to gain trading access to Asia and a warm water port in the North Korean city of Nagin through rail and land routes that run through the notoriously reclusive nation.
The Pride Lands' reclusive heir presumptive, Scar is introduced in the first film as the conniving uncle of Prince Simba and the envious younger brother of King Mufasa.
Scar's first appearance was in The Lion King (1994), in which the character, the Pride Land's reclusive heir presumptive, refuses to attend the ceremony of Prince Simba, his newborn nephew.
The sequence follows our traditional sense of Sibelius: a crackly recording, the snowy woods of his native Finland, a reclusive composer in a provincial land.
In 1987, the bishop from a local Capuchin mission volunteered to reach out to one particularly reclusive tribe, the Tagaeri, who lived on land that another oil company wished to explore.
The two million tons of bombs dropped on Laos, he discovered, still defined the aims and objectives of its leadership, a cabal of weary, reclusive, secretive old Marxists whose tunnel vision had reduced their land to penury.
(Currently a good survey of the movement, "Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974," is at the Museum of Contemporary Art, although the reclusive Heizer declined to participate).
Daily NK's team, which includes several North Korean defectors, uses secure messaging apps to communicate with network of informants in North Korea and China, allowing them to land exclusive scoops about what's really happening inside the reclusive regime.
In another decision affecting gambling in California, the state's Gambling Control Commission voted Thursday to give a casino license to Irving I. Moskowitz, a wealthy, reclusive doctor who provides money to militant Israeli settlers who build developments on Arab land that Israel occupied during the 1967 war.
