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Topic: Coat of Arms of North Korea


  
  North Korean won - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The won became the currency of North Korea in 1945, replacing the Korean yen.
North Korean won are intended exclusively for North Korean citizens, and the Central Bank issues a separate currency (or foreign exchange certificates) for visitors, like many other communist states.
North Korea has in the past issued whole series of foreign exchange certificate in which the designs are exactly the same, right down to color, only the denomination being different.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Korean_won   (654 words)

  
 Gallery of sovereign state coats of arms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coat of Arms of the Republic of the Congo
Coat of Arms of the Republic of Ireland
Coat of Arms of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_national_coats_of_arms   (192 words)

  
 North Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Korea was occupied by the Soviet Union north of the 38th Parallel and by the United States south of the 38th parallel, but the United States and the Soviet Union were unable to agree on implementation of Joint Trusteeship over Korea.
North Korea's capital and largest city is P'yŏngyang; other major cities include Kaesŏng in the south, Sinŭiju in the northwest, Wŏnsan and Hamhŭng in the east and Ch'ŏngjin in the northeast.
North Korea's population is one of the most ethnically and linguistically homogenous in the world, with only very small Chinese and Japanese communities.
www.objectsspace.com /encyclopedia/index.php/North_Korea   (3400 words)

  
 North Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Korea was occupied by the Soviet Union north of the 38th Parallel and by the United States south of the 38th parallel, but the Soviets and Americans were unable to agree on the implementation of Joint Trusteeship over Korea.
According to the Ministry of Unification of South Korea, the GDP grew by 6.2% in 1999, 1.3% in 2000, 3.2 % in 2001, 1.2% in 2002 and 1.8 % in 2003.
North Korea's population is one of the most ethnically and linguistically homogenous in the world, with only very small numbers of Chinese and Japanese minorities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Korea   (3472 words)

  
 North Korea Section @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
North Korea is one of the world's last communist states.
To the west it borders the Yellow Sea and the Korea Bay and to the east it borders the Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea).
Mainland China and South Korea are the biggest trade partners of North Korea, with trade with China increasing 38% to $1.02 billion in 2003, and trade with South Korea increasing 12% to $724 million in 2003.
www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/North_Korea   (2536 words)

  
 Nautilus Institute PFO 00-01: Regional Approach to Korean Peninsula Security
In the Korean peninsula, the position of the U.S. is the case of (1), South Korea's position is the combination of (1) and (3), and North Korea's is the case of (2).
The secondary incidents exacerbating the tension were the North's military attack on the South in June 1950, followed by the U.S. intervention in the civil war and the ensuing invasion into the North, which in turn invited the participation of China in the Korean conflict.
Although North Korea regards the presence of U.S. forces in the South as the principal cause of tension in Korea and, therefore, insists that a peace treaty should be concluded and U.S. forces withdrawn from the South, the U.S. and South Korea have been flatly rejecting such demands.
www.nautilus.org /archives/fora/security/0001A_Lee.html   (3483 words)

  
 Workers' Party of Korea -
The second Communist Party of Korea (CPK) was founded in 1925 by radical Koreans who had escaped to the Soviet Union from their homeland which had been occupied by Japan.
When the North Koreans were driven to the Chinese border, Kim needed a scapegoat to explain the military disaster and blamed Mu Chong, a leader of the Yanan faction and also a leader of the North Korean military.
Though Kim Tu-bong, the leader of the Yanan faction and nominal President of North Korea was not directly involved in the attempt on Kim he was ultimately purged in 1958 accused of being the "mastermind" of the plot.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Korean_Worker's_Party   (4477 words)

  
 North Korea - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
North Korea was governed from 1948 by Kim Il Sung until his death on July 8, 1994.
}} North Korea is on the northern portion of the Korean Peninsula that extends 1,100 km from the Asian mainland.
North Korea has previously (and may in the future) received international food and fuel aid from China, South Korea, and the United States in exchange for promises not to develop nuclear weapons.
www.voyager.in /North_Korea   (3040 words)

  
 North Korea -
Growing tensions between the governments in the north and south eventually led to the Korean War, when on June 25, 1950 the (North) Korean People's Army crossed the 38th Parallel, claiming that the South had crossed it first, and attacked.
North Korea's government is dominated by the Korean Workers' Party (KWP), to which 80 percent of government officials belong.
North Korea is on the northern portion of the Korean Peninsula that extends 1,100 kilometres (685 mi) from the Asian mainland.
www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/North_Korea   (3473 words)

  
 Coulthart Honor Role - Korean War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
After the North Korean army crossed the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea, the UN passed a U.S. sponsored resolution calling for military sanctions against North Korea.
Glenn was born in 1930 in Grafton, North Dakota.
Glenn is the great-grandson of Walter Coulthart (1820-1892) of Grafton, North Dakota.
www.coulthart.com /koreawar.html   (432 words)

  
 Covering North Korea: October 2005 Archives
North Korean technicians were spotted unloading large crates and heavy construction equipment from trains at Myothit, Magwe Division, in central Burma, where the nuclear reactor was believed to be under construction, diplomats told FEER.
North Korea and Burma have not had formal diplomatic ties since 1983, when Pyongyang sent a three-man team to assassinate then South Korean president Chun Doo Hwan while he was visiting Rangoon.
The sense that North Korea was a threat to my life was perhaps intensified by the fact that my father was an ROK diplomat and my mother had taught at a conservative state-run university.
journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/north_korea/2005/10   (6689 words)

  
 Coat of ... North Korea - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Korea, North, officially Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, country in northeastern Asia that occupies the northern portion of the Korean...
Korean Art and Architecture, the art and architecture of Korea since the New Stone Age (Neolithic period).
Korea, peninsula in Asia, divided since 1948 into two political entities: the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic...
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Coat+of+...+North+Korea   (121 words)

  
 North Korea
The white disc suggests the yin and yang symbol ("t'aeguk" in Korean) in the flag of the Republic of Korea.
White has been the traditional colour of the Korean nation and figures in the flag of North Korea as a symbol of purity, strength and dignity.
The blue stripes represent a commitment to peace, while the red indicates the nation is on a path to socialism.
www.fotw.net /flags/kp.html   (645 words)

  
 Gypsy Scholar: North Korean View: Tainting Pure Korean Blood is Treasonous
Homogeneity, which no other race in the world has, is the pride of our race and becomes the source of the unity needed in the struggle for eternal development and prosperity.
The anti-national character of the arguments for "multiethnic, multiracial society" is that it denies the race itself and entrusts the nation and race to the imperialists.
Be that as it may, the North's view of Korea as a nation state is that Korea truly is a nation state in an older sense of "nation" as "race," indeed, as the world's only pure race.
gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com /2006/04/north-korean-view-tainting-pure-korean.html   (808 words)

  
 Flag of north korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
North Korean Flags (North Korea) from The World Flag DatabaseGeographical and political facts, flags and ensigns of North Korea.
North Korea, Flag of North Korea, North Korea flag, Country Flag Flag of North Korea.
The national flag and ensign of North Korea (vexillological symbol · Image:FIAV_63.png) was adopted on Septem.
ssangyong.divcar.com /flag-of-north-korea.htm   (275 words)

  
 North Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The first documentation available to the Western world concerning the arms and flag of this new state [the Korean Democratic People's Republic] appears to be that presented in the Album de Banderas y Escudos de Todo el Mundo, published in Barcelona by Fher (in 1948?).
The field is square and red; it bears a white disc in the center surrounded by seventeen crossed yellow hammers and sickles.
In a CNN broadcast from North Korea (28 April 1995) a warship was shown.
www.netlinkit.dk /fotw/flags/kp.html   (679 words)

  
 Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
By 1999, COAT's concept of conversion had evolved to include social, legal, psychological and economic factors essential to the transition from a world based on war, greed, deception and violence, where "might is right," to a world based on peace, justice, truth, human rights and nonviolence.
This issue of COAT's magazine provides shocking evidence showing that Prescott Bush and George H.Walker were the financial managers of well-organised American effort to funnel the investments of right-wing U.S. bankers and industrialists into Germany which funded the rise to power of the Nazi Party and Adolph Hitler.
This annual research report by COAT juxtaposes evidence from a variety of sources to demonstrate Canada's complicity in international war crimes and crimes against humanity.
coat.ncf.ca   (3523 words)

  
 Defense   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
North Korean parlance for rank is "ilitary titles".
A dictionary gives the definition of military title as "a title conferred by the state on a member of the armed forces as a sign of one's status and professional duties" and focuses on the honor of being a soldier and having title.
The title of marshal is given only to the supreme commander of the armed forces, and the first person to become marshal was none other than Kim Il-sung, by the decision of the Supreme People's Assembly during the Korean War.
www.fas.org /irp/world/rok/nis-docs/defense05.htm   (631 words)

  
 Gypsy Scholar
When I came to Korea the first time, back in 1995, the Confucian ethos was much stronger, and students told me that they had been taught by their parents that they should not tread on even the shadow of their teacher (let alone the teacher's foot!).
If North Korea were to begin tottering politically, a conceivable scenario would involve China sending military support to help shore up the North's government and maintain its 'territorial integrity.' Such a scenario is likely remote, but if Chinese nationalism were to take an expansionist form then China's historical 'legitimacy' to Goguryeo might prove tempting.
Our paper is titled "The Two Koreas and the Clash of Civilizations in East Asia," and the conference is the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS), which is being held in Seoul from the 12th to the 13th of May.
gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com   (10281 words)

  
 Embassy Row - The Washington Times: Embassy Row - September 27, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
North Korea can cooperate with the international community over its nuclear programs or keep its atomic weapons and remain in isolation, according to the U.S. ambassador to South Korea.
Hill warned North Korea that the U.S. position will remain the same, regardless of the outcome of the November presidential election.
North Korea is delaying talks with the international negotiating team of China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States.
www.washtimes.com /world/20040926-103903-9978r.htm   (594 words)

  
 National insignia - Wikimedia Commons
Abolished flags and flags of countries that don't exist anymore are collected in the category Historical flags.
Coat of arms of British Indian Ocean Territory
Coat of Arms of the Central African Republic
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/National_insignia   (217 words)

  
 South Korea
According to "Standard Shades of the Korean Flag 1997-10", issued by the Ministry of Information in 1997, the officially recommended colours are red 186C and blue 294C in the Pantone Matching System.
The ROK Navy vessels use the national flag as the naval ensign.
Based upon Flags and Arms Across the World and The World Encyclopedia of Flags (which claims that this flag has been in use since 1967),
www.fotw.net /flags/kr.html   (1109 words)

  
 All Shop's korea* : Collect at Curioshop
North Korea / China: Unusual 3 D card with Chairman Mao.
It is a North Korean entire with a Mao imprint at back.
The second one is a map of Japan and Korea including Liu — Kiu (Riu Kiu, also Lu Tschu) and the Kuriles (Tshi — Shima).
www.rubylane.com /shops/curioshop/ilist?ss=korea*&samedb=1&prevss=kore*&sb=Search   (988 words)

  
 Recreation - Coat of Arms.com
Shop Coat of Arms, the most comprehensive Coats of Arms, family crest, family crests, family name histories, sirname histories, ancestry, and heraldry resource for personalized gifts.
Coat Of Arms - Family Crest - Ancestry - Heraldry - Arms Coat - Crest Family Shield - Welsh - Scottish - German
Coats of Arms crafted according to heraldic standards.
www.rafasys.com /recreation/site/8127   (207 words)

  
 north korea - OneLook Dictionary Search
North Korea : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
North Korea : The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [home, info]
Phrases that include north korea: administrative divisions of north korea, buddhism in north korea, cinema of north korea, cities of north korea, coat of arms of north korea, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=north+korea   (209 words)

  
 flag of North Korea flags
Flag adopted 8 September 1948; coat of arms adopted 8 September 1948
Webster's Concise Encyclopedia of Flags & Coats of Arms, Crampton, 1985 states about the flag:
The Roundels of the World published in Beijing in Apr 2001 by Defense Force Publishing shows Northe Korean roundel which has a red five-pointed star bordered red-white-dark blue but the circle is about two times wide as picture in Album 2000.
fotw.tukayyid.de /flags/kp   (648 words)

  
 Korea North Coat of Arms Bumper Sticker
Great way to display your national pride with this big Korea North Coat of Arms
Korea North Soccer - Football Bumper Sticker - Design 2
Korea North Soccer T-Shirt - World Soccer 2006
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 Welcome to 802d ENGINEER BATTALION
World War II battle honors are represented by Polaris, the North Star, for service in the Aleutians, and torii, a common structure in Okinawa, for service in the Ryukyus.
A representation of th South Gate to the ancient walled city of Suwon, Korea, in base, signifies the service of that area.
(Note: This version amends the description of the coat of arms authorized 13 February 1957.) (Approved 3 April 1963.) DISTINCTIVE UNIT INSIGNIA: The distinctive unit insignia is the shield and motto of the coat of arms.
www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageFullText/1,13476,713630,00.html   (244 words)

  
 Service
He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in Korea on July 25, 1953.
He was listed as Missing in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on June 13, 1952.
He was seriously wounded while fighting the enemy in Korea and died of hose wounds on September 27, 1950.
www.dodgefamily.org /Wars/korea/UltimateSacrifice_Korea.shtml   (469 words)

  
 North Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
North Korea : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
Moldova Mongolia Nepal Nicaragua Nigeria North Korea Oman Pakistan Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines...
North Korea zone: A zone for discussion and information exchange about North Korea.
www.lookwhy.com /topterms/North-Korea.html   (122 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Monitoring | Media reports | Putin's popularity is timeless
Described as a "source of inspiration" to artists of all genres by Russian television, Vladimir Putin, to his own embarrassment, has become the subject of a Soviet-era style personality cult in his country.
The image of the president is a symbol of the state like the flag, the coat of arms or the anthem
To date Russians have given the name Putin to a cathedral, a collective farm, a bar, a kind of cake and even a tomato - despite the refusal by officials to register it.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/not_in_website/syndication/monitoring/media_reports/2227920.stm   (405 words)

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