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Korea-DPR.com
· cached · Official site of the Korean Friendship Association, offering brief information about North Korean society and culture. Other language versions of the site are available.
NewsHour Online Forum: The North Korea Famine
· iweb · cached · A 1997 discussion on famine in North Korea and links to related interviews from the PBS news program The NewsHour.
North Korean Studies
· cached · Articles and links to Web sites about contemporary North Korean society and politics, relations with Russia and Australia, and Soviet Koreans.
Stories from the People's Paradise, North Korea
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SinoKorea
· iweb · cached · China-based Web site devoted to information on North Korea. Includes forum. In English and Chinese.
CNN Factsheet - One of the World's Most Secretive Nations
· iweb · cached · North Korea is one of the world's most authoritarian and secretive nations, with an economy in dire straits after decades of mismanagement.
NK Missions - The World Center for North Korea Missions
· cached · Evangelical Christian ministry seeking to mobilize and coordinate efforts for North Korea missions. Includes discussion forums, news, and information on volunteering and participating.
Korea is One!
· cached · 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.
Nautilus Institute: DPRK Briefing Book
· cached · 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.
BBC Radio 3: On Location in North Korea
· iweb · cached · Listen to this BBC radio documentary recorded in North Korea and view photos of host Andy Kershaw's visit to the country.
Asia Times - Cracks in North Korean 'Stalinism'
· iweb · cached · 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.
Asia Times Online - North Korea's Antique Food Rationing
· iweb · cached · 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.
BBC News - N Korea Envoys 'Smuggled Drugs'
· iweb · cached · Turkey deports two North Korean diplomats accused of smuggling amphetamine pills into the country.
Ethnologue - Languages of North Korea
· cached · Information about the living languages of the country including population, region, classification, dialects and alternate names.
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]
Koreascope
· Information about the North Korean way of life, from a South Korean perspective.
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