Asia Insights : Korea (North)
Facts
and background
Population
: 22.6 m
Surface area : 120.5 thousand
Population growth : 0.5 %
Life expectancy (2002): 62.4
Population below national poverty line : nia
GNI per capita : nia
GDP : nia
Source:
World
Development Indicators Database
Books
and reports from NIAS Library
Special
report: North Korea's Economic, Politcal and Social Situation /
Geir Helgesen and Nis Høyrup Christensen, NIAS, 2005
Nuclear
North Korea: Nervousness In Pakistan
Institute For Topical
Studies, Chennai, India
Extract: "According
to well-informed sources in Pakistan of well-established credibility,
there is nervousness in Pakistan that fresh enquiries by the US
into North Korea's nuclear capability might bring out hitherto unknown
(to the international community) information relating to co-operation
between Pakistan and North Korea in the nuclear and missile fields.
[The author of the paper,
Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat,
Govt. of India. - ed.]
Head
of State:
General Secretary, Korean
Workers' Party (KWP) KIM Jong Il, Mar.
Source
:
Chiefs of State
Politics
and society
Asiasource
North Korea
CIA
World Factbook
Library
of Congress Country Study
USAID/DEC
Development Reports
DPRK
- North Korea
Reliefweb
situation reports
Korean
History Online Kimsoft
Network
for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights
Juche
Juche
Idea
Study
the Juche Idea
Chajusong
Self-Reliance
Military/nuclar
situation
Nuclear
Threat Initiative (NTI) ,
Center
for Nonproliferation Studies
Global
Security Jane´s Defence Weekly
.
Nuclear
Review
Korean
Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO)
FAS
North Korea Special Weapons Guide
Government
sites
Government
The
Constitution
Democratic
People's Republic of Korea official page .
Information on history, culture,
politics, tourism and geography, refer to the official webpage of
the DPRK.
Political
parties
The
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
Official Page
Elections
Elections
in the World: North Korea
News
agencies
Korean
Central News Agency
News
The
People's Korea
People's
Newspaper
(Tokyo-based semimonthly organ of DPRK)
Pyongyang
Times
(Government-owned), Pyongyang
News
from foreign sources
The
Korea Times ´ North
Korea Today
BBC
news
CNN
news
Yahoo
News (Reuters/AP/etc)
Reliefweb
situation reports
The
Age
Xinhua
The
Gurdian
Research
Institutions, Universities and Networks
University
of Texas at Austin .
Intercultural
Institute of California
' Korean
Short Story Index'
School of Hawaiian , Asian
& Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu
, USA :
Center
for Korean Studies Online ,
Internet
Archive Harvard
University Korea Institute
Nordic
Universities and Networks
Universitetet i Oslo: Institutt
for østeuropeiske og orientalske studier
Asianettverkets nyheter fra
Nord-Korea på nyhetsside Bak
nyhetene .
Københavns Universitet: KOREANSK/ØSTASIENSTUDIER
Stockholm
University; Department
of korean studies
E-Journals
Korean
Studies
Development
organisations / agencies
Development
Gateway
OECD-DAC
Aid at a Glance
UNDP:
Agricultural Rehabilitation & Environment Protection Programme
for DPRK .
Other
resources
North
Korea Subject Guide
University of Origon Libraries
North
Korea
The World-Wide Web Virtual
Library
Korea.com
Amnesty
International Publications
Freedom
in the World
Network
for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights
Koreaweb
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