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Korea-DPR.com - http://www.korea-dpr.com/
Official site of the Korean Friendship Association, offering brief information about North Korean society and culture. Other language versions of the site are available. |
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CNN Factsheet - One of the World's Most Secretive Nations - http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/nkorea.facts/
North Korea is one of the world's most authoritarian and secretive nations, with an economy in dire straits after decades of mismanagement. |
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Koreascope - http://www.koreascope.com/
Information about the North Korean way of life, from a South Korean perspective. |
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North Korean Studies - http://north-korea.narod.ru
Articles and links to Web sites about contemporary North Korean society and politics, relations with Russia and Australia, and Soviet Koreans. |
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Korea is One! - http://www.korea-is-one.org/
Belgian, French and Dutch group formed to promote understanding of North Korea. Offers a pro-North Korean viewpoint, including trip reports and news. In English, Dutch, and French. |
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NewsHour Online Forum: The North Korea Famine - http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/august97/korea_8-26.html
A 1997 discussion on famine in North Korea and links to related interviews from the PBS news program The NewsHour. |
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Stories from the People's Paradise, North Korea - http://www.gluckman.com/PageNK.htm
Journalist Ron Gluckman reports on slices of life in North Korea: the 1966 soccer squad that nearly reached the World Cup finals, a museum of lavish birthday gifts to former leader Kim Il Sung, stories of defectors, a train trip to Pyongyang, a visit to the DMZ, Pyongyang's only disco, the state film studio and North Korea's version of the Internet. |
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Journey to the People's Paradise - http://dprk.1accesshost.com/
Collection of Web links relating to life, culture and the arts in North Korea. |
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NK Missions - The World Center for North Korea Missions - http://www.nkmissions.com/
Evangelical Christian ministry seeking to mobilize and coordinate efforts for North Korea missions. Includes discussion forums, news, and information on volunteering and participating. |
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Ethnologue - Languages of North Korea - http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=KP
Information about the living languages of the country including population, region, classification, dialects and alternate names. |
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SinoKorea - http://dprk-cn.com/en
China-based Web site devoted to information on North Korea. Includes forum. In English and Chinese. |
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BBC News - N Korea Envoys 'Smuggled Drugs' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/4083977.stm
Turkey deports two North Korean diplomats accused of smuggling amphetamine pills into the country. |
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Welcome to North Korea - http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/welcome_to_north_korea.htm
2001 film depicts a dichotomy between the poverty of North Koreans and the personality cult and propaganda of their leaders. [53 minutes] |
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Nautilus Institute: DPRK Briefing Book - http://www.nautilus.org/DPRKbriefingbook/index.html
Topically arranged links to Web resources, such as studies and reference materials, that provide background information relating to security, foreign relations, and economic, humanitarian, and political issues. |
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Asia Times - Cracks in North Korean 'Stalinism' - http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/FL07Dg01.html
Documents how the major peculiarities of Stalinism are slowly disappearing from North Korea, and how the "Hermit Kingdom" is not as hermetic as the government would like. |