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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: North Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		North Korea is bounded on the north by China, on the northeast by Russia, on the east by the East Sea (Sea of Japan), on the south by South Korea, and on the west by the Yellow Sea.
		North Korea claims to possess nuclear weapons, and it is widely believed to have a substantial arsenal of chemical weapons (deliverable by artillery against South Korea).
		North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003 after not receiving the promised light water reactors which were going to be delivered by the United States of America in exchange for North Korea not developing their own power plants.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/North-Korea (2133 words)

	North Pyongan Summary
		North P'yongan Province is noted as well for its beautiful landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and caves.
		North P'yŏngan (P'yŏngan-pukto) is a province of North Korea.
		North P'yŏngan is bounded by water on the west with Korea Bay and the Yellow Sea (called the West Sea by Koreans).
	www.bookrags.com /North_Pyongan (638 words)

	North Pyongan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North P'yŏngan (P'yŏngan-pukto) is a province of North Korea.
		The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former P'yŏngan Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, then became a province of North Korea.
		North P'yŏngan is bounded by water on the west with Korea Bay and the Yellow Sea (called the West Sea by Koreans).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Pyongan (185 words)

	North Pyongan Region Map: Abuam-ni — Yusogol \| North Korea Google Satellite Maps
		You are in North Pyongan (North Korea), administrative region of level 1.
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		Expedia is the long-standing web leader in online delivery of everything you need for researching, planning, and purchasing a whole trip in North Pyongan.
	www.maplandia.com /korea-north/north-pyongan (676 words)

	The Agricultural Situation Of North Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		North Korean agricultural policies are directed towards solving the problem of food shortages through the "four improvements" in agricultural technology: irrigation, farm mechanization, rural electrification, and agricultural chemicals.
		North Korea stresses that this is essential to avoid further soil acidification caused by the excessive application of chemical fertilizers.
		North Korea permits farmers to choose for themselves the most suitable crop for double cropping in their area, but a grain crop is usually followed by another grain crop.
	www.agnet.org /library/article/eb475.html (4829 words)

	The Epoch Times \| North Korea Reportedly Suffers Severe Crop Damage
		North Korean women harvest rice in a cooperative farm in Uiju county, North Pyongan province.
		TOKYO - North Korea's official news agency, in a rare report on a natural disaster, is warning of severe damage to crops in the impoverished country from torrential rains last month.
		North Korea suffered a famine in the mid-1990's, and now relies on foreign aid to feed about one-fourth of its population of 22 million.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-8-2/22687.html (375 words)

	The North Korea Missle Threat
		North Korean poverty is staggering-one recent US intelligence report said famine in the northeast Asia state has led to cannibalism.
		The problem of North Korean missiles is made worse by the fact that Pyongyang has become a wholesaler of missiles and related technology and materials.
		The official stopped short of saying the missile is "deployed," but he noted that, because of the unusual methods used by the North Koreans for developing their missiles with a few flight tests, the missile has to be considered a threat.
	www.afa.org /magazine/jan2000/0100missile.asp (3271 words)

	Korea - July 2001
		North and South Korea experienced one of the hottest and driest spring seasons (March 21 to June 21) on record this year.
		Although drought was a problem in both years, the 2001 drought reached its peak in mid-June and had its greatest impact on winter crop maturing/harvesting and summer crop planting/germination, whereas the 2000 drought came later in the season and stressed crops as they reached reproduction.
		North Korea's 2001/02 corn crop is estimated at 1.3 million tons, down slightly from last year's poor crop, due to reduced area and below-normal yield.
	www.fas.usda.gov /pecad2/highlights/2001/08/korea/kor0107.htm (934 words)

	Kusong - North Korean Special Weapons Facilities
		Kusong in North Pyongan Province is said to be a significant military industrial area, with many secret munitions plants standing roof-to-roof.
		North Korean uranium mines are also reportedly located in Kusong in North Pyongan province, Pyongsan in North Hwanghae province, and Sunchon in South Pyongan province.
		North Korea reportedly built a high explosives test site, which is essential to nuclear weapons development, in a valley between T'aech'on County and Kusong County in North P'yongan Province, and has conducted three to four high explosives tests.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/dprk/kusong.htm (353 words)

	Remains Recovery and Identification
		U.S. and North Korean officials met in Berlin in December to discuss joint remains recovery operations for the year 2000.
		In January, 2000 the North Korean Mission to the United Nations issued a statement that remains of American servicemen had been discovered during a land re-zoning project in the North Pyongan Province, where many men died during fierce combat during the Korean War.
		North Korea responded in mid-February with a letter that once again tied recovery operations to the humanitarian aid they had requested, and said they would ‘dispose’ of the remains they had unearthed if the U.S. did not come and get them.
	www.coalitionoffamilies.org /remains_recovery.htm (790 words)

	Chemical Weapons - North Korean Special Weapons Facilities
		North Korea has at least eight industrial facilities that can produce chemical agents, and probably nearly twice this many; however, the production rate and types of munitions are uncertain.
		North Korea has the capability to produce nerve gas, blood agents, and the mustard-gas family of chemical weapons.
		The locations generally seem to lie in fair proximity to airfields, though this may be entirely coincidental, as both airfields and military facilities generally are profoundly abundant in such close proximity to the Demilitarized Zone, the immediate precincts of which are highly militarized.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/dprk/facility/cw.htm (1023 words)

	North Korea - Amnesty International
		In September, the fourth round of six-party talks in Beijing (involving North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the USA) reached a breakthrough accord in which North Korea pledged to abandon its nuclear programmes in exchange for aid and security assurances.
		In July, 64-year-old Moon Sung-Jun was reportedly arrested on suspicion of leading an underground church in Shinuiju, North Pyongan province.
		North Korean women in China were reportedly exploited sexually, including through forced marriages and trafficking into the sex industry.
	web.amnesty.org /report2006/prk-summary-eng (1055 words)

	CWS Sends Urgently Needed Food Aid to North Korea
		The recent breakdown in dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea (DPRK) and the escalation in war rhetoric have severely disrupted the political climate conducive to continued improvement in inter-Korean talks and the flow of urgently needed humanitarian food aid, he said.
		Hsu said that while he is in North Korea, he expects to consult with staff of the World Food Program, particularly the Food Aid Liaison Unit (FALU); the Flood Damage Rehabilitation Committee, and the Protestant Korean Christians Federation (KCF), the largest religious association in North Korea with an estimated 10,000 members countrywide.
		North Korea does not have at its disposal the foreign currency to buy and import the deficit amount, he said.
	www.churchworldservice.org /news/archives/2003/04/82.html (890 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Korea News and Korean Business and Economy, Pyongyang News
		North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's tour of businesses in China's Guangdong province this past week has resurrected speculation that Pyongyang is on the verge of implementing extensive economic reforms.
		The US and North Korea continue to disagree over several contentious issues, including the provision of light-water reactors, sequencing of benefits in return for North Korean denuclearization, and the extent of a monitoring regime.
		While neither the US nor North Korea is ready to scuttle the talks, Washington's high-visibility campaign against Pyongyang's illicit activities has complicated the negotiations and further reduced the potential for resolution of the nuclear impasse.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Korea/HA20Dg01.html (1495 words)

	Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea
		The Yungbyun area in North Pyongan Province, home to a nuclear power plant and a nuclear research station, which have been inspected by international agencies from time to time, and Taegwan County encompassing Kumchang-ri, suspected of holding underground nuclear facilities through the satellite photographs made public in 1999, are off-limits.
		Hochon, Jangjin, Daehung and Bujon in South Pyongan Province, Yonsa in North Hamgyong, and Baekam in Yanggang are all mountainous areas, notorious for the banishment of political prisoners.
		Rumors abound in Myongchon County, North Hamgyong Province, that the county is inaccessible to WFP food relief, because its chief party secretary reported to Kim Jong Il during the latter's guidance tour, "We have no food shortage," according to a native Jong Hyon-chol, who fled to the South in 2000.
	www.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200201/200201300205.html (669 words)

	[KS] _Encyclopedia of North Korean Geography and Culture_
		Maps that North Korea had planned to publish in 2004 are included in ENKGC and reflect the current administrative districts as of January 2005.
		For example, Mi-Ran Oh, one of the distinctive actresses in North Korea, is introduced by her date of birth, place of birth, and art and serial movie works in which she performed.
		North Korea has reorganized its administrative districts many times and also kept changing the names of schools at all levels along with the names of enterprises.
	koreaweb.ws /pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2006-March/005499.html (2939 words)

	Calgary Doctor Returns from North Korea- Canadian Red Cross
		North Korea's health system lacks some of most basic necessities, including medicine, medical equipment, heating, power, clean water and sanitation.
		The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Federation) has been working in North Korea since 1995 and is one of the few humanitarian organizations that has maintained a constant presence in the country.
		In North Korea, the Federation delivers programs in three provinces and one municipality that have a population of over 6 million.
	www.redcross.ca /main.asp?id=001915 (477 words)

	Korea Infogate - South Korea map, travel, Korean language, music, culture,news, and vast info. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The northernmost point is Yupojin in Onsong-gun, North Hamgyong Province, and the southernmost point is Marado Island, Cheju Province.
		The westernmost point is Maando Island in Yongchon-gun, North Pyongan Province, and the easternmost is Tokdo Islets in Ullunggun, North Kyongsang Province.
		Most of the larger rivers are located in the west and have their tributaries on the north and east sides, and flow into the Yellow Sea and the South Sea.
	www.koreainfogate.com /aboutkorea/item.asp (575 words)

	WFP - DPRK
		North Korea's second successive year of drought has ravaged wheat, barley and potato crops forcing many farmers to abandon an estimated 10 percent of the country's planted area.
		The WFP/FAO report is based on the findings of a joint crop and food supply assessment mission that visited North Korea at the end of June to report firsthand on the affects of a drought that, in many places, lasted 100 days.
		Field-trips concentrated on the four rice-bowl provinces of North Pyongan, South Pyongan, South Hwanghae and North Hwanghae.
	www.wfp.org /newsroom/in_depth/north_korea_II.html (1344 words)

	Human Rights Without Frontiers, Int.
		Notorious are prisons located in Chongjin, North Hamgyong province; Kaechon, South Pyongan; and Sunghori, Pyongyang, the last of which was relocated a few years ago when its existence became known to the public.
		I was handed over to a group of North Korean soldiers that took part in the ritual of changing handcuffs, from Chinese to North Korean state property.
		I have heard that there are talks about North Korean refugees going on at the United Nations, whether the refugees should be treated as political refugees or illegal immigrants who left their country just for economic reasons.
	www.hrwf.net /north_korea/nkhtml/north_korea_press_services_2008.html (3663 words)

	WorldTribune.com: War train: Missiles, warheads for Syria in N. Korean rail blast
		A 2002 order by Syria called for the delivery of North Korean Scud D medium-range missiles along with biological and chemical warheads which are weapons of mass destruction.
		The North Korean said the Scud engines were produced at the so-called "January 8 Factory" in Kaechon while the missiles were assembled in the Shin-eum-ri facility in Pyongyang.
		The newspaper quoted the North Korean as saying that the BW and CW warheads were assembled at the Namheung Chemical Factory and were onboard the train when it exploded in what was described as an accident.
	www.worldtribune.com /worldtribune/WTARC/2004/me_syria_06_13.html (565 words)

	Korean War Remains Discovered
		To bolster its claim that the remains are American, North Korea released a name from a military identification tag it said was found among the remains.
		On Monday, Li Gun, deputy North Korean representative at his country's mission at the United Nations, said in a telephone interview the Korean People's Army had invited the Pentagon to send a "fact-finding team" to the land reclamation project to verify that the remains are those of American servicemen.
		He said the intent was to show average North Korean citizens, whose help he said is vitalto recovering remains, that the United States is well intentioned and is no longer the enemy.
	www.coalitionoffamilies.org /remains_discovered.html (1850 words)

	Special Report: DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA - 28 October 2002
		In September 2002, it was announced that Sinuiju City, provincial capital of North Pyongan on the frontier facing the city of Dandong in China, would have a change of status, to special economic zone.
		Winter wheat and spring barley are produced in all provinces except Ryanggang and North Hamgyong and have been the main cereals in the Double Cropping Programme initiated in 1996 jointly by FAO and UNDP, as part of the Government framework for agricultural recovery.
		There remain geographical disparities in access to food, with the north and north-eastern regions greatly affected due to their lower agricultural potential, the much higher concentration of PDS dependants and the downturn in economic activity.
	www.fao.org /docrep/005/y7843E/y7843E00.htm (9411 words)

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