Asia- North Korea- Society and Culture

17 pages found in Society and Culture:

BBC Radio 3: On Location in North Korea

Listen to this BBC radio documentary recorded in North Korea and view photos of host Andy Kershaw's visit to the country.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/onlocation/northkorea.shtml

Ethnologue - Languages of North Korea

Information about the living languages of the country including population, region, classification, dialects and alternate names.
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=KP

Korea is One!

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.
http://www.korea-is-one.org/

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.
http://www.korea-dpr.com/

Koreascope

Information about the North Korean way of life, from a South Korean perspective.
http://www.koreascope.com/

Nautilus Institute: DPRK Briefing Book

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.
http://www.nautilus.org/DPRKbriefingbook/index.html

NewsHour Online Forum: The North Korea Famine

A 1997 discussion on famine in North Korea and links to related interviews from the PBS news program The NewsHour.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/august97/korea_8-26.html

NK Missions - The World Center for North Korea Missions

Evangelical Christian ministry seeking to mobilize and coordinate efforts for North Korea missions. Includes discussion forums, news, and information on volunteering and participating.
http://www.nkmissions.com/

North Korean Studies

Articles and links to Web sites about contemporary North Korean society and politics, relations with Russia and Australia, and Soviet Koreans.
http://north-korea.narod.ru

SinoKorea

China-based Web site devoted to information on North Korea. Includes forum. In English and Chinese.
http://dprk-cn.com/en

Stories from the People's Paradise, North Korea

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.
http://www.gluckman.com/PageNK.htm

Welcome to North Korea

2001 film depicts a dichotomy between the poverty of North Koreans and the personality cult and propaganda of their leaders. [53 minutes]
http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/welcome_to_north_korea.htm

Los Angeles Times - North Korean Facade of Self-sufficiency Can't Hide Signs of Hunger

Despite efforts to put up a front, North Korea is spiraling down to another famine and mass starvation. <small>(November 2, 2008)</small>
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-nampo2-2008nov02,0,5245334.story

Asia Times Online - North Korea's Antique Food Rationing

Describes the history and de facto collapse of the North Korean government's Public Distribution System (PDS) which rationed food for a majority of its people. <small>(January 15, 2005)</small>
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GA15Dg01.html

BBC News - N Korea Envoys 'Smuggled Drugs'

Turkey deports two North Korean diplomats accused of smuggling amphetamine pills into the country. <small>(December 9, 2004)</small>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/4083977.stm

Asia Times - Cracks in North Korean 'Stalinism'

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. <small>(December 7, 2004)</small>
http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/FL07Dg01.html

CNN Factsheet - One of the World's Most Secretive Nations

North Korea is one of the world's most authoritarian and secretive nations, with an economy in dire straits after decades of mismanagement. <small>(April 23, 2004)</small>
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/nkorea.facts/