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  List of political parties in South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Political parties in South Korea lists political parties in South Korea.
Its political ideology is to the left of the Democratic Party.
It is the heir of South Korea's traditionally conservative political elite.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_South_Korea   (734 words)

  
 List of political parties in North Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Political parties in North Korea are heavily tied to the function of the government.
North Korea has several parties, but the Workers Party of Korea (more commonly, the Korean Worker's Party or KWP) has a stranglehold on political power.
North Korean politics works therefore on the united front principle common in communist countries.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_parties_in_North_Korea   (260 words)

  
 Wikinfo | North Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 government is dominated by the communist Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), to which all government officials belong.
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.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=North_Korea   (2535 words)

  
 Essential Background: Overview of human rights issues in North Korea (Human Rights Watch, 31-12-2004)
North Korean refugees who recently escaped the country have said that more knowledge of the outside world is slowly spreading by word of mouth from residents who watch Chinese TV channels despite the risk of being arrested.
North Korea advertises itself as a workers’ heaven, and has numerous trade unions in all industrial sectors, but the unions are all controlled by the state.
North Korea’s relationship with the international community is seriously complicated by its self-proclaimed possession of nuclear weapons and its dismal record on human rights and economic development.
hrw.org /english/docs/2005/01/13/nkorea9850.htm   (1547 words)

  
 Political Party Reform Workshop II - List of Participants
He studied North Korea at the Graduate School of Policy Sciences in Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and is currently studying Christian Ethics in a ThD course at Yonsei University.
Previously, he was a policy research consultant at the National Assembly of Korea and a full-time instructor at the Korea and Foreign Language Institute at Yonsei University.
Park has authored and edited numerous publications and articles on politics and political economy in Korea and the Philippines, and on theories of democracy and democratic governance.
www.cald.org /website/bangkok2/bangkok2_southkorea_participants.htm   (869 words)

  
 The Internationalist
North Korea, a small nation of about 23 million people, has been quite a source of headaches to US policy makers since its creation in 1945.
North Koreans were sent to the Soviet Union to study nuclear science and in 1964, the Research Institute of Atomic Energy was established.
North Koreans live in the most closed society on earth because the Kim regime refuses to discard an unworkable totalitarian ideology and adapt to the international environment.
www.princeton.edu /~intrlist/issue1/asiapacific/wang.nkorea.shtml   (2760 words)

  
 CNN.com - N. Korea talks to resume Feb. 25 - Feb. 3, 2004
North Korea is offering a deal that could halt its nuclear program in return for concessions from Washington.
"The DPRK (North Korea) and the U.S., the major parties concerned to the six-way talks, and China, the host country, agreed to resume the next round of the six-way talks from February 25 after having a series of discussion[s]," KCNA reported Tuesday.
North Korea's official KCNA news agency confirmed Monday talks on the nuclear issue had been held between the Australian delegation and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Kim Yong-il, who headed the North Korean delegation at the first round of the six-way talks.
cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/02/03/nkorea.talks.update/index.html   (615 words)

  
 North Korea - Gurupedia
North Korea was ruled from 1948 by Kim Il-sung until his death on June 8, 1994.
Kim Jong Il (the son of late Kim Il Sung), the head of the Workers' Party and the military.
North Korea's government is extremely reclusive, and as such, very few foreigners enter the country.
www.gurupedia.com /n/no/north_korea.htm   (1757 words)

  
 Asiaweek.com | Korea: Revolt of the Citizens | 2/11/2000
The two partners were strange bedfellows to begin with: JP is politically more conservative than the president and was once part of the military-led regime that persecuted DJ during his dissident days in the 1970s.
But suspicions have not been dispelled by the fact that the MDP was curiously mute in its response to the fllist; the party gave a guarded welcome to the list and promised to take it into account when nominating candidates for the elections.
Kim's political shift may be a sign that he wants to focus on matters close to his heart - a more equitable distribution of wealth and greater dialogue with the North, with a view toward eventual reunification - but the move is not without dangers.
www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/magazine/2000/0211/nat.korea.main.html   (1715 words)

  
 Crosswalk.com - North Korea Top Persecutor on Open Doors List
For the fourth straight year, the isolated communist nation of North Korea remains atop the 2006 Open Doors “World Watch List” of 50 countries where Christians are persecuted the most.
The list is based on evaluations and testimonies obtained by Open Doors’ indigenous contacts, field workers and members of the Persecuted Church.
As a member of the North Korea Freedom Coalition (NKFC), Open Doors USA is partnering with NKFC during the North Korea Freedom Week April 24-30, 2006.
www.crosswalk.com /news/religiontoday/1381593.html   (1005 words)

  
 List of political parties | Definition | Information | Explanation | Review | WikiCity.com - Wikipedia Free ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This is a list of political parties around the world.
Election results for the parties can be found at List of election results or among the external links at the end of the article.
List of political parties in Asia and the Pacific
www.wikicity.com.cob-web.org:8888 /wikipedia/l/li/list_of_political_parties.html   (118 words)

  
 Search Results for "List ..."
...Informal A list or group of the most admired or desirable people, as for a job or social gathering: famous actors on the casting director's A list; a private party...
...fairly recently been underworld argot but both now are Conversational and Informal: a hit list is a list of people or organizations to be wiped out or at least opposed...
A list designating a target, as for attack, coercion, or elimination: had a hit list of executives he wanted fired...
bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=List+...   (345 words)

  
 NEAS - Resources, North/South Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The economic costs of North Korean military policies and international security behavior cannot be measured by foreign aid budgets or defense budgets alone; all of North Korea\'s neighbors have suffered broader economic costs, and lost economic opportunities, as a direct consequence of Pyongyang\'s security policies and practices.
North Korea WWW Virtual Library, Han, M.Y. The site is the central clearing house of links to high quality online resources on the society, cultures, economy, politics, language, education, history, religion, demography, tourism and other Social Sciences subjects concerningÊNorth Korea.
North Korea would surrender all weapons of mass destruction and their components that may be on North Korean soil at the time that agreement comes into effect.
neas.miis.edu /resources-korea-north-south.html   (9167 words)

  
 Japan (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The largest and main islands are, from north to south, Hokkaid&333; (&21271;&28023;&36947;), Honsh&363; (&26412;&24030;, the largest island), Shikoku (&22235;&22269;), and Ky&363;sh&363; (&20061;&24030;).
Over repeated ice ages during the last million years, Japan was regularly connected by land bridges to the Asian mainland (by Sakhalin to the North, and probably Kyushu to the South), facilitating migrations of humans, animals and plants to the Japanese archipelago from the area that is now China and Korea.
The conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been in power since 1955, except for a short-lived coalition government formed from its opposition parties in 1993; the largest opposition party is the liberal-socialist Democratic Party of Japan.
japan.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (4250 words)

  
 Water Cooler Games - Political Games Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As with many of these little games, not really political in content, but an adequate and rapid interpretation of a news event that got a lot of media attention.
The biggest one, Carrera por la presidencia (Presidential race) is a Mario Bros. clone where the political...
...political independents had a significantly less sour view of Bush and the GOP after spending 45 seconds whacking images of Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro and other rogue leaders.
www.watercoolergames.org /archives/cat_political_games.shtml   (5621 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Political Parties
Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ) [Socialdemocratic Party of Austria]
Srpska Stranka Republike Srpske [Serbian Party of the Serbian Republic]
Hrvatska Seljacka Stranka Bosne i Hercegovine (HSS BiH) [Croatian Peasants Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/parties.html   (2433 words)

  
 Korea via the Web
Maintained by Network Korea, this list is extensive but has not recently been updated.
The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs pages on North Korea include comments regarding North Korea's August 31, 1998 launch of a missile over Japan and other matters between the two nations.
KCNA is the official voice of the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/web/koreaweb.htm   (981 words)

  
 Political parties, interest groups, and other movements around the world
List of political and non-profit organisations on the Internet, maintained by UC-Berkeley's Centre for Community Economic Research
America's Open Debates Foundation is a national foundation committed to networking existing "free election" organizations, every legitimate national party, ballot access and election reform movements into one cooperative, unified and powerful voice.
Third Parties '96 is a movement to build a new mainstream political party
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /parties.htm   (1232 words)

  
 Political Parties of South Korea: An Annotated List
Political Parties of South Korea: An Annotated List
"a progressive conservative party [believing in] break[ing] with the failed policies of the past, institute political reform, and embrac[ing] the dynamic global economy of the 21st century...
"a political party of workers, peasantry, urban poor, small businessmen, women, students and progressive intellectuals"
newton.uor.edu /Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/skorea-parties.html   (105 words)

  
 Google Answers: korea
As to South Korea, not exactly communist, but leftist, are the Democratic Labour Party and the Socialist Party.
However, there is the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front, banned by the South Korean government for its alleged relationship with the North Korean ruling Workers' Party of Korea.
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google.com /answers/threadview?id=775478   (217 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Political parties in North Korea informs about political parties in North Korea.
Workers Party of Korea (ChÔson Nodongdang, also translated as Workers' Party of Korea and Korean Workers Party)
Listed links may put this banner on their website.
encyc.connectonline.com.cob-web.org:8888 /index.php/Political_parties_in_North_Korea   (292 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Korea (Democratic People's Republic)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Korea (Democratic People's Republic) [ Choson Minchuchuui Inmin Konghuaguk ]
Political Resources on the Net (by Roberto Cicciomessere)
The Political Reference Almanac (by Keynote Publishing Co.)
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/kp.html   (113 words)

  
 EDIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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