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	About North Korea - Travel, Maps, Flag and Information
		North Korea is on the northern portion of the Korean Peninsula that extends 1,100 km from the Asian mainland.
		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).
		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.
	www.canadiancontent.net /profiles/North-Korea.html (1021 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from Korea; North and South
		On arriving in the country, she learns about the contemporary culture of North Korea, one of the last communist countries.
		The documentary discusses the life of modern North Koreans and their problems: the lack of electricity and hot water, the famines caused by massive flooding at the end of the last decade and the economic crisis precipitated by the loss of the country's main ally, the Soviet Union.
		North Koreans feel that they are under siege and respond accordingly, she said in an interview.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Korea/EK13Dg05.html (684 words)

	Wikinfo \| North Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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, Shinŭiju 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.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=North_Korea (2535 words)

	Strategic Insights -- Korea: A U.S. Foreign Policy Side Show
		North Korea is what former Secretary of Defense William Perry referred to as, "the poster-child of proliferation problems."[12] Forced to enter the NPT in December 1985 by the Soviet Union, North Korea threatened to withdraw in March 1993.
		North Korea's second threat to withdraw actually became effective on 10 April 2003, after it kicked out IAEA inspectors, and was the first country to ever deny IAEA requests for special inspections.
		North Korea remains an enigma and the multilateral approach is both a blessing and a curse.
	www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/2004/jun/orcuttJun04.asp (4659 words)

	Culture at Caribbean Topfunwebsites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For example, someone who used 'culture' in the sense of 'cultivation' might argue that classical music "is" more refined than music produced by working-class people such as punk rock or than the indigenous music traditions of aboriginal peoples of Australia.
		There resulted a belief in cultural relativism; the belief that one had to understand an individual's actions in terms of his or her culture; that one had to understand a specific cultural artifact (a ritual, for example) in terms of the larger symbolic system of which it forms a part.
		Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century, in part through the re-introduction of Marxist thought into sociology, and in part through the of sociology and other academic disciplines such as literary criticism.
	www.topfunwebsites.com /guyana/culture.html (2346 words)

	Contemporary culture of North Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The desire of the North Korean regime to preserve its Korean culture, including many traditional aspects such as food, dress, art, architecture, and folkways, is motivated in part by the historical experience of cultural eradication attempt by the Japanese.
		North Korea is famous for what it calls "mass games", often held in large stadiums to impress foreign visitors.
		In light of North Korea's current close relationship to China, and during the Choson Dynasty, it is significant that the section of the hall devoted to gifts from China is the largest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Contemporary_culture_of_North_Korea (1384 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		But most are familiar with U.S. charges that North Korea has weapons of mass destruction, and they might also be used to thinking of the communist nation as a serious threat.
		A new documentary titled 'North Korea Beyond the DMZ' looks at the human side of this country, and discusses the origins of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) outlook on the world and the United States in particular.
		North Koreans feel that they are under siege and respond accordingly, she adds in an interview.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=21027 (646 words)

	The Art of Propaganda (dprkstudies.org)
		When Korea was liberated from the Japanese by the United States in the South, and the Soviet Union in the North, Kim returned to the Northern Soviet occupied territory as a major in the Soviet army.
		While educational statistics for North Korea look impressive relative to other third-world nations, the actual value of their education is reduced by the enormous volume of time spent on the study of things Kim Il Sung, with estimates being between 20 and 30 percent of all class time.
		North Korean art seeks "the true tradition" through a revolutionary art that fights against Japan, and proclaims that the revolutionary art under Kim Il-sung is the first revolutionary art, the first to perfectly realize the meaning of the Communist Party, the worker and the people.
	www.dprkstudies.org /documents/dprk003.html (3711 words)

	Contemporary art: who calls the shots?.
		As proof, those in the art world point to the fact that exhibitions and biennales are scattered around the planet2 (they are even held in Havana, Taipei and Dakar), and to the rise of Asian artists after the Eastern European wave of the early 1990s.
		In contemporary art, globalization and its corollaries in the art world—cultural mixing and relativism—are taken for granted.
		And each time, the success of these different groups is considered “natural.” At the very least, the geographical concentration of contemporary art hampers the recognition of the artistic potential that exists outside the United States and in some European countries.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2001_10/uk/culture.htm (1211 words)

	Korea — Infoplease.com
		Korea, South: History, Geography, Government, and Culture - Information on Korea, South — geography, history, politics, government, economy, population statistics, culture, religion, languages, largest cities, as well as a map and the national flag.
		Korea, North: History, Geography, Government, and Culture - Information on Korea, North — geography, history, politics, government, economy, population statistics, culture, religion, languages, largest cities, as well as a map and the national flag.
		Korea: Meeting of North and South - Korea: Meeting of North and South The half-century of antagonism between North and South Korea, who...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0828116.html (301 words)

	Culture of Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nevertheless, the current political separation of the north and the south of the peninsula results in some regional variance in the Korean culture.
		The traditional music in Korea is based on the voice, a distinct type reflecting the temperament and history of the Korean people.
		Hwaseong is the fortification of the city Suwon south of Seoul in South Korea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Culture_of_Korea (3400 words)

	Culture of Korea - Gurupedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The culture of Korea is shared by South Korea and North Korea, but there are regional differences.
		With the Japanese invasion in Korea in the 16th century, many leading potterists were brought to Japan where they nurtured the growth of Japanese ceramics.
		This kingdom was one of the strongest in the north east of China and the Korean peninsula between the 5th and 7th century AD.
	www.gurupedia.com /c/cu/culture_of_korea.htm (3019 words)

	The Japanese Roots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Japanese interpret this to mean that Japan conquered Korea and brought Korean slaves and artisans to Japan; Koreans believe instead that Korea conquered Japan and that the founders of the Japanese imperial family were Korean.
		Thus, when Japan sent troops to Korea and annexed it in 1910, Japanese military leaders celebrated the annexation as "the restoration of the legitimate arrangement of antiquity." For the next 35 years, Japanese occupation forces tried to eradicate Korean culture and to replace the Korean language with Japanese in schools.
		Thus, immigrants from Korea really did make a big contribution to the modern Japanese, though we cannot yet say whether that was because of massive immigration or else modest immigration amplified by a high rate of population increase.
	www.kimsoft.com /2004/japanese_roots.htm (5822 words)

	Amazon.com: North Korea: Another Country: Books: Bruce Cumings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A deal, involving the end of North Korea's missile and uranium reprocessing technology in return for a formal peace treaty and mutual recognition has been possible and was possible at the end of the Clinton presidency.
		After North Korea's first (and confirmed) nuclear test on October 9 2006 the interest on this country has soared and this book is a good start for anyone asking questions about the North Korean regime.
		I was shocked to learn that North Korean youths are obliged to serve eight years in the military (and take their first leave after the sixth year!) but equally amazing were the statistics which prove that North Korea was at a better economic position than the South, until the beginning of the 1980s.
	www.amazon.com /North-Korea-Another-Bruce-Cumings/dp/156584940X (3227 words)

	sociology - Culture of Korea
		The traditional culture of Korea is shared by South Korea and North Korea, but there are regional differences.
		The political differences between the north and the south of the peninsula also mean that there is a different focus on specific aspects of Korean culture.
		With the Japanese invasion in Korea in the 16th century, many leading potters were kidnapped to Japan where they originated the creation of Japanese ceramics.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Culture_of_Korea (3227 words)

	Korea Institute Newsletter
		McCann, who wrote poetry himself, had come to Korea as a member of the Peace Corps and was teaching English conversation.
		One of his recent publications is the Korean edition of the Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry, which he edited in collaboration with Oh Se Young under the auspices of the International Korean Literature Association, Haenam Press.
		An enormous amount of translating work remains to be done, McCann said, not only because of the continuing vitality of the contemporary Korean literary world, but because many of the English translations of earlier works were not done right the first time.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~korea/newsletter/newsletter41_001.html (1030 words)

	Korea
		By its very location and size, Korea (originally Chosan) was doomed to live in the sphere of influence of the continental powers, and later, of Japan, before being divided into the two countries we know today.
		Legend has it, that Korea was first established by Tan'gum Wang'gom in 2333 B.C., who named the new kingdom Choson, "Land of the Morning Calm", and established his capital at Asadal, today's P'yong'yang.
		During this period, the people who had settled in the Korean peninsula became a homogenous people and culture, within which society was divided in clans.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Places/Place/325083 (608 words)

	North Korea - Contemporary Cultural Expression
		The role of literature and art in North Korea is primarily didactic; cultural expression serves as an instrument for inculcating chuch'e ideology and the need to continue the struggle for revolution and reunification of the Korean Peninsula.
		Foreign imperialists, especially the Japanese and the Americans, are depicted as heartless monsters; revolutionary heroes and heroines are seen as saintly figures who act from the purest of motives.
		In the early 1990s, there was no evidence of any underground literary or cultural movements such as those that exist in the Soviet Union or in China.
	countrystudies.us /north-korea/38.htm (414 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: Asia: North Korea: Society and Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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.
		Korea Times - Situation Remains Bleak for North Koreans - Describes the increasingly hard times in the country as slowly leading to some reforms, but their effect is difficult to measure.
		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.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Asia/North_Korea/Society_and_Culture (535 words)

	EAK170 Korea: Its culture & heritage
		This is a survey course that is designed to introduce students to important elements of Korean culture.
		This course aims to identify a unique pattern of cultural construction of Korea in the major aspects of Korea's pre-modern and modern history, language, literature, art, and philosophy/religion.
		Introducing the fundamentals of Korean culture in interdisciplinary and comparative approaches, this course also attempts to discuss contrasts between American and Korean cultural patterns and expectations.
	www.albany.edu /korean/eak170.html (698 words)

	John Derbyshire on North Korea on National Review Online
		The actual historical evidence, in Korea as well as in Ireland, is that if left to their own devices, the peoples concerned would cheerfully kill, cook and eat each other.
		The underlying desire for racial solidarity on the peninsula is one of the reasons for the high levels of anti-Americanism among young Koreans, visible during George W. Bush's visit to the country last February, and confirmed in a recent Boston University survey.
		Neither can be depended on to pursue rational policies: North Korea's policies are in fact irrational, while China's conversion to rationality is recent, and may for all we know be temporary, having no constitutional or social-historical foundations.
	www.nationalreview.com /derbyshire/derbyshire102202.asp (1755 words)

	IIC Course Catalog
		The major aim of this course is to help the student come to an understanding of cultural production in Korea and to introduce her or him to its contemporary and historical interpretations.
		LC541 (K10-1, K10-2) Beginning Korean Language and Culture I, II --An intensive introduction to the Korean language and its cultural contexts for usage.
		Among topics to be covered are the role of the Koreas in the global village, trends towards internationalization of political and military affairs, and international economic ties.
	iic.edu /Main/MastersProg/CourseCatalog.htm (3056 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Appeasing North Korea: the Clinton Legacy by Ben Johnson
		Democrats have begun a desperate-yet-predictable effort to blame North Korea's nuclear aspirations on President George W. Bush's strident rhetoric. Despite their leftist cant, they seem remarkably uninterested in the "root causes" of Pyongyang's current nuclear brinksmanship: Bill Clinton's eight years of appeasement and the gullible cordiality of the South Korean government.
		Even this seemingly humanitarian food aid turned into a weapon in North Korea's hands. Reports abound that rations have been re-directed to the DPRK's military, the fifth largest in the world. This is nothing new.
		With Marxist saber-rattling threatening an atomic showdown on the peninsula, South Korea should be in the lead denouncing the aggressive posture taken north of the 38th parallel. Instead, Seoul has saved its greatest ire for the United States while cozying up with Pyongyang.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5368 (639 words)

	North Korea zone: "Axis to Grind" Q&A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Western views of North Korea from the past 50 years are tied in knots with the anti-communist cold war apparatus.
		As for France criticizing North Korea, France is nothing more than a fellow imperialist (despite the much-talked-about disagreement over Iraq, although both the U.S. and France actually just wanted oil but with different ways of acquiring it) which helped the U.S. overthrow Haiti's government and kidnap its leader.
		What the North Koreans forget in their rhetoric is that they are now a nuclear power who is threatening the United States directly with nuclear weapons.
	nkzone.typepad.com /nkzone/2004/02/axis_to_grind_q.html (7621 words)

	AllRefer.com - North Korea - Ethnicity, Culture, And Language In Contemporary Society \| North Korean Information ...
		Descended from migratory groups who entered the Korean Peninsula from Siberia, Manchuria, and Inner Asia several thousands of years ago, the Korean people are distinguished from the neighboring populations of mainland Asia and Japan in terms of ethnicity, culture, and language, even though they share many cultural elements with these peoples.
		Since the establishment of the Han Chinese colonies in the northern Korean Peninsula 2,000 years ago, Koreans have been under the cultural influence of China.
		During the period of Japanese domination (1910-45), the colonial regime attempted to force Koreans to adopt the Japanese language and culture.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/north-korea/north-korea50.html (431 words)

	Asian-Nation : Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues :: Behind the Headlines ::: APA News Blog
		I will first state that yes, North Korea has the right to assert its independence and yes, others need to be careful in how they phrase their criticism of North Korea’s actions.
		In other words, it is one thing to criticize them for their unprovoked threats against their neighboring countries, but it is another matter to say that they represent the latest version of the racist “yellow peril” image of evil, diabolical Asians scheming to conquer the entire world.
		At the same time, I would like to point out that North Korea is directly threatening not western nations like Europe or even the U.S., but rather, their fellow Asian neighbors such as South Korea and Japan.
	www.asian-nation.org /headlines/2006/07/north-koreas-latest-threats (526 words)

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