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Regional: Asia: North_Korea: Society_and_Culture

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BBC Radio 3: On Location in North Korea
Listen to this BBC radio documentary recorded in North Korea and view photos of host Andy Kershaw's visit to the country.

DPRK - Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Links to news and information about North Korea, Juche Thought, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Ethnologue - Languages of North Korea
Information about the living languages of the country including population, region, classification, dialects and alternate names.

Journey to the People's Paradise
Collection of Web links relating to life, culture and the arts in North Korea.

Korea is One!
Belgian, French and Dutch group formed to promote understanding of North Korea. Offers a pro-North Korean viewpoint, including trip reports and news. In English, Dutch, and French.

Korea-DPR.com
Official site of the Korean Friendship Association, offering brief information about North Korean society and culture. Other language versions of the site are available.

Koreascope
Information about the North Korean way of life, from a South Korean perspective.

Nautilus Institute: DPRK Briefing Book
Topically arranged links to Web resources, such as studies and reference materials, that provide background information relating to security, foreign relations, and economic, humanitarian, and political issues.

NewsHour Online Forum: The North Korea Famine
A 1997 discussion on famine in North Korea and links to related interviews from the PBS news program The NewsHour.

NK Missions - The World Center for North Korea Missions
Evangelical Christian ministry seeking to mobilize and coordinate efforts for North Korea missions. Includes discussion forums, news, and information on volunteering and participating.

North Korean Studies
Articles and links to Web sites about contemporary North Korean society and politics, relations with Russia and Australia, and Soviet Koreans.

SinoKorea
China-based Web site devoted to information on North Korea. Includes forum. In English and Chinese.

Stories from the People's Paradise, North Korea
Journalist Ron Gluckman reports on slices of life in North Korea: the 1966 soccer squad that nearly reached the World Cup finals, a museum of lavish birthday gifts to former leader Kim Il Sung, stories of defectors, a train trip to Pyongyang, a visit to the DMZ, Pyongyang's only disco, the state film studio and North Korea's version of the Internet.

Welcome to North Korea
2001 film depicts a dichotomy between the poverty of North Koreans and the personality cult and propaganda of their leaders. [53 minutes]

Asia Times Online - North Korea's Antique Food Rationing
Describes the history and de facto collapse of the North Korean government's Public Distribution System (PDS) which rationed food for a majority of its people. (January 15, 2005)

BBC News - N Korea Envoys 'Smuggled Drugs'
Turkey deports two North Korean diplomats accused of smuggling amphetamine pills into the country. (December 9, 2004)

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. (December 7, 2004)

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. (April 23, 2004)

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