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  North Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
North Korea's 1972 constitution was amended in late 1992 and again in 1998.
North Korea's capital and largest city is P'yongyang; other major cities include Kaesong in the south, Sinuiju in the northwest, Wonsan and Hamhung in the east and Chongjin in the north.
North Korea's population is one of the most ethnically and linguistically homogenous in the world, with only very small Chinese and Japanese communities.
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 North Korea biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 was ruled from 1948 by Kim Il-sung until his death on July 8, 1994.
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.
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 2000 Report to Congress on the Military Situation on the Korean Peninsula
North Korea remains the major threat to stability and security in Northeast Asia and is the country most likely to involve the United States in a large-scale war.
North Korea's fundamental war-fighting strategy mandates achievement of surprise, prosecution of a short and violent war, prevention of major United States reinforcement of the peninsula, and negation of the Republic of Korea's mobilization.
North Korea’s trade with, and aid from, China and Russia have fallen drastically since 1990 and are undergoing a fundamental transformation from barter to hard currency, making it difficult for the North to secure badly needed resources such as food, oil, coking coal, and timber.
www.defenselink.mil /news/Sep2000/korea09122000.html   (8880 words)

  
 North Korea - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The oppressive Japanese occupation ended after World War II in 1945, after which Korea was occupied by the Soviet Union in north of the 38th parallel and by the United States south of the 38th parallel.
North Korea was ruled from 1948 by Kim Il Sung until his death in 1994.
North Korea has a centralised government under the control of the communist Korean Workers' Party[?] (KWP), to which all government officials belong, though a few minor political parties exist in name only.
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 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - North Korea
North Korea, known officially as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK; Korean: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; Chosongul: 조선민주주의인민공화국; Hanja: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國), is a country in eastern Asia, covering the northern half of the peninsula 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.
North Korea is accused of employing concentration camps and to severely restrict most freedom such as freedom of speech.
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 NORTH KOREA FACTS AND INFORMATION
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 km from the Asian mainland.
North Korea's population is one of the most ethnically and linguistically homogenous in the world, with very small Chinese and Japanese communities as the only non-Korean indigenous minorities.
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 North Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
North Korea, known officially as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK; Korean: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; Chosŏngŭl: 조선민주주의인민공화국; Hanja: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國), is a country in eastern Asia, covering the northern half of the peninsula of Korea.
North Korea cannot truly be called communist, however, because it does not follow the Marxist-Leninist approach of democratic centralism within the Party, but instead has set up a new elite bureaucratic ruling class, in the vein of Stalinist Russia.
North Korea is accused of employing concentration camps (video link)http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4397847/ and severely restricting most freedoms such as freedom of speech.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/North-Korea.htm   (3246 words)

  
 north korea information
North is one of the four primary cardinal directions, specifically the direction treated, in Western culture, as the primary direction and used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions.
Magnetic north is of interest because it is the direction indicated as north on a properly functioning (but uncorrected) magnetic compass.
Thus the choice of the north as corresponding to up in the northern hemisphere, or of south in that role in the southern, is, prior to world-wide communication, anything but an arbitrary one.
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 Blast deals new blow to North Korea's economy. 25/04/2004. ABC News Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
North Korea on Saturday blamed human error for the explosion at the railway station at Ryongchon two days earlier and said damage from the accident was "very serious."
North's Korea's viable industrial plant and equipment was worth $US1.9 billion in 2000, South Korea's central bank said this week, a mere 0.4 per cent of the value of the South's.
Ordinary North Koreans, without fuel for heating and cooking, have taken to the surrounding countryside to strip the mountains of trees, leaving a gloomy landscape bereft of woodland.
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 NORTH KOREA FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
North Korea is of political importance as it borders South Korea, China, and Russia.
North Korea has previously and may in the future receive a flow of international food and fuel aid from the People's Republic of China, South Korea and the United States in exchange for promises not to develop nuclear weapons.
On 19_September 2005, North Korea was promised food and fuel aid (among other things) from South Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia and China in exchange for abandoning its nuclear weapons program and rejoining the Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty.
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 Air Bases - North Korea
Air transportation in North Korea is practically nonexistent.
North Korea has deployed about half of its fighters in the front area which makes a possible short-warning attack against all areas of South Korea.
North Korea has built dozens of reserve airstrips for emergency landing and takeoff for fighters along highways and ordinary roads across the country.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/dprk/air-base-intro.htm   (350 words)

  
 Korea, North
Korea is a 600-mile (966 km) peninsula jutting out from Manchuria and China (and a small portion of the USSR).
The North Korean invaders swiftly seized Seoul and surrounded the allied forces in the peninsula's southeast corner near Pusan.
In late December 2002, North Korea expelled UN weapons inspectors from the country and announced it could no longer agree to the terms of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), officially withdrawing from it in January 2003.
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 North Korea
Japanese occupation of Korea ended after World War II in 1945, after which Korea was occupied by the Soviet Union in north of the 38th parallel and by the United States south of the 38th parallel.
Even with aid, malnutrition rates are among the world's highest and estimates of mortality range in the hundreds of thousands or even millions as a direct result of starvation or famine-related diseases.
Korea had a traditionally Buddhist and Confucianist past, with some Christian and the traditional Chondogyo ("Heavenly Way") minorities present, though autonomous religious activities are now almost nonexistent in the North due to aggressive persecution of believers.
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 Transportation Pyongyang North Korea Asia Regional
South Korea's Elcanto, which is running a successful shoe factory in Pyongyang.
But in North Korea, they found a country where transportation and utilities are...
North Korea's nuclear programme, was not expected to visit Pyongyang before the...
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 UNEP APELL Korea
For the purpose of transportation, ammonium nitrate with less than 0.2 percent combustible substances and ammonium nitrate fertilisers are classified by the U.S. Department of Transportation as oxidizers.
Two explosions of ammonium nitrate solutions that occurred during processing at ordnance plants during the Second World War were believed to be caused by the explosion of a small amount of ammonium nitrate in a blocked pipe, which then initiated the explosion of a larger quantity of solution.
The transport of passengers and goods by rail is subject to the provisions of the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail of 9 May 1990 (COTIF).
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 Transportation in North Korea: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Transportation in North Korea
Transportation in North Korea: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Transportation in North Korea
The standard route to and from North Korea is by plane through Beijing, China.
Transportation directly to and from South Korea is possible on a limited scale from 2003, when a road was opened (bus tours, no private cars).
www.encyclopedian.com /tr/Transportation-in-North-Korea.html   (194 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Korea, North   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After failing in the Korean War (1950-53) to conquer the US-backed republic in the southern portion by force, North Korea, under its founder President KIM Il Sung, adopted a policy of ostensible diplomatic and economic "self-reliance" as a check against excessive Soviet or Communist Chinese influence.
North Korea's long-range missile development and research into nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and massive conventional armed forces are of major concern to the international community.
North Korea, one of the world's most centrally planned and isolated economies, faces desperate economic conditions.
www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/kn.html   (1468 words)

  
 North Korea Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
For many, a visit to the so-called 'Truce Village' in the 38th parallel is a North Korean highlight...
North Korea has some exquisite national parks, and the country is almost completely unexploited by commercial tourism.
Disclaimer: We've tried to make the information on this web site as accurate as possible, but it is provided 'as is' and we accept no responsibility for any loss, injury or inconvenience sustained by anyone resulting from this information.
www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/asia/north-korea   (118 words)

  
 Transportation Of Korea, North   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Anywhere Transportation Service: Limousine and Bus Charter Services, Convention Transportation, Airport Transfers and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Overland Transportation of Rice Assistance to North Korea
O The government reported on July 6 to the National Assembly its plan for providing 400,000 tons of rice assistance on a loan basis which was agreed during the 9th Round of Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation Promotion Committee held on June 5, 2004.
It is now in consultation with the North on the wording of ¡°the Agreement on Loan-based Food Assistance¡± through exchange of documents.
O The North, responding to the agreement, requested the South to send all 100,000 tons of rice via overland routes; 50,000 tons via an overland route to Gaesong, and another 50,000 tons via an overland route to Kosong.
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 North Korean Flag on Almondnet
Korea A peninsula and former country of eastern Asia between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.
Meaning for North Korean Flag and Map North Korea and Korean War and History of the North Korean Flag...
A giant North Korean flag flies over Gi-Chung village inside the North's side of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the Korean Peninsula...
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 North Korea - Bus Transportation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
North Korea hungry for control Some might say that...
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 WWW transportation North Korea union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Flags North Korea on Almondnet
North Korea A country of northeast Asia on the Korean Peninsula.
Inhabited since ancient times, the region was occupied by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II in 1945.
Map North Korea and North Korean Flag and Population of North Korea and Map of South North Korea...
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 Transportation in North Korea - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Transportation in North Korea - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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Transportation in North Korea, Railways, Rail links with adjacent countries, Highways, Waterways, Pipelines, Ports and harbors, East Coast, West Coast, Unsure, Merchant marine, Airports, Airports - with paved runways, Airports - with unpaved runways and See also.
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 Rovisoft - Regional Asia North Korea Transportation - Free Directory Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Univeristy of Washington professor Donald Hellmann, who earlier this month held an unprecedented diplomatic conference inside North Korea, has a history with the issues of East Asia.
South Korea finalized an ambitious plan Friday to move the headquarters of state enterprises out of the Seoul metropolitan area, a measure aimed at creating new opportunities for regional economies and promoting balanced national growth.
Infrastructure South Korea finalized an ambitious plan Friday to move the headquarters of state enterprises out of the Seoul metropolitan area, a measure aimed at creating new opportunities for regional economies and promoting balanced national growth.
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 Rovisoft - Regional Asia North Korea Pyongyang Transportation - Free Directory Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With bombs exploding in Iraq and a war of words surrounding Iran, the third member of President Bush's ”Axis of Evil“ has been conducting a little-noticed game of nuclear brinksmanship.
SEOUL -- Buoyed by a multilateral deal on North Korea's nuclear weapons programs last week, South Korea is pushing for greater economic cooperation with its impoverished communist neighbor.
North Korea's demand for light water nuclear reactors, that is. Monday's hosanna headlines suggested Kim Jong Il's evil regime in Pyongyang had decided to ditch its nuclear weapons program.
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