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Koreascope
Information about the North Korean way of life, from a South Korean perspective.
http://www.koreascope.org
Korea-DPR.com
Official site of the Korean Friendship Association offers brief information about North Korean society and culture. Other language versions of the site are available.
http://www.korea-dpr.com/
NewsHour Online Forum: The North Korea Famine
A 1997 discussion on the food situation in North Korea and links to related interviews from the PBS news program The NewsHour.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/august97/korea_8-26.html
North Korean Studies
Articles and links to Web sites about contemporary North Korean society and politics, relations with Russia and Australia, and Soviet Koreans.
http://north-korea.narod.ru
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, and his visits to the DMZ, to Pyongyang's only disco and to the state film studio.
http://www.gluckman.com/PageNK.htm
THINK - Their Home Isn't North Korea
A non-profit organization based in Tokyo with information and resources on the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea.
http://trycomp.swee.to/THINK/
SinoKorea
China-based Web site devoted to information on North Korea. Includes forum. In English and Chinese.
http://dprk-cn.com/en
KFA Story
Posts and correspondence about the Korean Friendship Association (KFA)
http://www.geocities.com/kfastory
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.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/nkorea.facts/
Asia Times: Pyongyang Watch
Journalist Aidan Foster-Carter writes this commentary on North Korean society, politics and events as a regular column for the Asia Times.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/others/pongyang.html
Journey to the People's Paradise
Collection of Web links relating to life, culture and the arts in North Korea.
http://dprk.1accesshost.com/
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