SOURCES ABOUT NORTH KOREA (II)

SOCIETY

Los crímenes contra la humanidad de Corea del Norte según la ONU (2014). Redacción BBC Mundo.
This article talks about the social situation in North Korea, more concretely about the problems that society has been recently been through, such as torture or extreme violence due to political disagreements. The UN has decided to intervene in order to end up this conflict as soon as possible. 

Salmon, Andrew. (2010). What is life like inside North Korea? For CNN. October 10, 2010.
In this article published by the CNN, the author analyzes briefly how the society in this country has evolved during the last decades, as well as some points of its policy and economy that affect society too. Some interesting information about Human Rights is also given.

Dong Yong Sueng. (2010). North Korea's Declining Life Expectancy. SERI Quarterly. Apr2010, Vol. 3 Issue 2, p110-114. 5p. 
The article focuses on the impact of aging population. It notes that the country's population has declined as a result of the mass starvation occurrence in the late 1990s due to natural disasters. It mentions that the two reasons for the negative census result is the fact that North Korea is being pushed into an aging society status and that the country indicates a lack of future manpower.

LANGUAGE ISSUES

Choe Sang-Hum (2006). Koreas: Divided by a common language - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune.  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/world/asia/30iht-dialect.2644361.html?_r=1&

Lee, Hyun-Bok. (1990) Differences in language use between North and South Korea. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 1990, Vol. 1990 Issue 82, p71. 16p.

Both documents talk about how the division of Korea affected the language of the country; some decades after the division, the geographical separation of Korea started to be also a "linguistic separation". North and South Korea used to share a common language, but nowadays many things of that language have evolved differently in each country.

SOURCES ABOUT NORTH KOREA (I)

DOMESTIC POLITICS

Terry, Sue Mi. (2014) A KOREA WHOLE AND FREE. Foreign Affairs. Jul/Aug2014, Vol. 93 Issue 4, p153-162. 10p. 

This article, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, the author analyzes what would happen if North and South Korea were unified again, and explains the main advantages and drawbacks of the reunification. 

http://eldiariodecoreadelnorte.blogspot.com.es/

In this blog, updatings about the internal political situation in North Korea are regularly published. The articles are usually about its relation with South Korea, the Human Rights and the internal conflict that still lasts in this country.

http://www.korea-dpr.com/political.html

This site gives some general information about the Political System in North Korea, more particularly about the main tasks and goals of the State and also about its State Organs.

Kim, Samuel S. (2010) NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR STRATEGY AND THE INTERFACE BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL  Asian Perspective. 2010, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p49-85. 37p. 

This article talks about the defense and nuclear strategies of North Korea, and the consequences that it is having for the inhabitants of the country and how it is affecting its relations with other countries.

FOREIGN POLICY

FOREIGN RELATIONS. Background Notes on Countries of the World: North Korea. 3/9/2010, p6-6. 1p.

To start with, this paper gives a general view of the relations that North Korea has with other foreign countries, focusing on the most relevant ones and analyzing how these relations have evolved during the last few years and how the situation is nowadays.

Zeller, Tom. (2006). The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea. The New York Times. October 23, 2006.

This journal article published by the New York Times nearly eight years ago analyzes a problem that still exists in the country nowadays: the lack of information in the media about some internal aspects of North Korea.  

Jong-Han Yoon. (2011).The Effect of US Foreign Policy on the Relationship Between South and NorthKorea: Time Series Analysis of the Post-Cold War Era. Journal of East Asian Studies. May-Aug2011, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p255-287. 

In the given pages of this magazine, the History of North Korea during the past few decades is being analyzed. The author talks about the conflict between North and South Korea, focusing on how foreign countries, specially the US, have always affected the relation between both Koreas.

Dockterman, Eliana. (2014). Kerry: U.S. Will Not Accept North Korea as Nuclear State. Time.com. 1/8/2014, p1-1. 1p. 

Again, a document about the relations between North Korea and the US. But in this case, the main point is the present conflict that the nuclear strategy of North Korea is causing between this country and the US. The US, reluctant to accept this strategy, is trying to affect the commercial relations between North Korea and some other countries.

ABOUT NORTH KOREA

Democratic People's Republic of Korea best known as North Korea is an Asian country on the very East side of the continent. It is located on the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. China and South Korea are its only country's boarders.

North Korea has not always been divided or independent. As every other country it has its own history. I think a good reference where you can find the history of this country is on the website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea#History and it is also well-explained on http://www.history.com/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-north-korea

It is very important to understand North Korea's past in order to understand what it is currently happening now.

Important facts about North Korea:

- Capital:Pyongyang
- Official language: Korean
- Type of government: socialist State, one-party system
- Supreme leader: Kim Jong-un
- Population:
- Currency: North Korean won

Blanca Barthe Ramos