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(area controlled by ‘north korea’ in ‘dark green’)
(areas claimed by ‘north korea’ in ‘light green’)
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*as of ‘9 NOVEMBER 2023’*
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*9 SEPTEMBER 2016*
(‘north korea’ conducts its fifth and largest nuclear test to date)
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*US response*
(‘ned price’, a National Security Council spokesman, stated: “We are aware of seismic activity on the Korean Peninsula in the vicinity of a known North Korean nuclear test site. We are monitoring and continuing to assess the situation in close coordination with our ‘regional partners’”)
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(officially the democratic people’s republic of korea (DPRK))
(‘north korea’ listen), is a country in ‘east asia’, in the northern part of the ‘korean peninsula’)
(‘pyongyang’ is both the nation’s capital as well as its largest city, with a population just over 2.5 million)
(to the ‘north’ and ‘northwest’ the country is bordered by ‘china’ and by ‘russia’ along the ‘amnok’ (known as the ‘yalu’ in ‘china’) and ‘tumen’ rivers.
(the country is bordered to the ‘south’ by ‘south korea’ (officially the ‘republic of korea’), with the heavily-fortified ‘Korean Demilitarized Zone’ separating the two)
(an invasion initiated by ‘north korea’ led to the ‘korean war’ (‘1950’ – ‘1953’))
(the ‘korean armistice agreement’ brought about a ‘ceasefire’, and no official ‘peace treaty’ was ever signed)
(both states were accepted into the ‘united nations’ in ‘1991’)
(the ‘DPRK’ officially describes itself as a ‘self-reliant socialist state’ and formally holds ‘elections’)
(critics regard it as a ‘totalitarian dictatorship’)
(various outlets have called it ‘stalinist’, particularly noting the elaborate ‘cult of personality’ around ‘kim il-sung’ and his family)
(‘international organizations’ have assessed ‘human rights violations’ in ‘north korea’ as belonging to a category of their own, with no parallel in the ‘contemporary world’)
(the “workers’ party of korea”, led by a member of the “ruling family”, holds power in the ‘state’ and leads the “democratic front for the reunification of the ‘fatherland'” of which all ‘political officers’ are required to be ‘members’)
(over time ‘north korea’ has gradually distanced itself from the ‘world communist movement’)
(‘juche’, an ideology of ‘national self-reliance’, was introduced into the constitution as a “creative application of ‘marxism–leninism'” in ‘1972’)
(the ‘means of production’ are owned by the ‘state’ through ‘state-run enterprises’ and ‘collectivized farms’)
(most services such as ‘healthcare’, ‘education’, ‘housing’, and ‘food production’ are ‘subsidized’ or ‘state-funded’)
(from ‘1994’ to ‘1998’, ‘north korea’ suffered from a ‘famine’ that resulted in the ‘deaths’ of between ‘0.24’ and ‘3.5 million’ people, and the country continues to struggle with ‘food production’)
(‘north korea’ follows songun, or “military-first” policy)
(it is the country with the highest number of ‘military’ and ‘paramilitary’ personnel, with a total of 9,495,000 ‘active’, ‘reserve’, and ‘paramilitary’ personnel)
(its ‘active duty army’ of ‘1.21 million’ is the 4th largest in the world, after ‘china’, the ‘USA’, and ‘india’)
(it possesses ‘nuclear weapons’)
(‘north korea’ is an ‘atheist state’ where ‘public religion’ is discouraged)
(the origins of the ‘korean state’ began with ‘korean pottery’ dating back to ‘8000 BC’, with 3 kingdoms flourishing in the ‘1st century BC’)
(the name korea is derived from the ‘kingdom of goguryeo’, also spelled as koryŏ, which was one of east asia’s greatest empires)
(during the ‘7th century’, ‘korea’ under ‘later silla’ and ‘balhae’ dynasties enjoyed over a ‘millennium’ of relative tranquility under long lasting dynasties with the invention of the ‘hangul script’, created by ‘sejong the great’ in ‘1446’)
(‘korea’ was annexed by the ’empire of japan’ in ‘1910’ until the ‘japanese surrender’ at the end of ‘World War II’ in ‘1945’, when ‘korea’ was divided into 2 zones along the ’38th parallel’ by the ‘united states’ and the ‘soviet union’, with the ‘north’ occupied by the ‘soviets’ and the ‘south’ by the ‘americans’)
(negotiations on ‘reunification’ failed, and in 1948 2 separate governments were formed: the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” in the ‘north’, and the “Republic of Korea” in the ‘south’)
(‘9 september 1948’)
(“republic day” in north korea)
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