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North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
- History
History of North Korea. The history of North Korea began...
- History
Corea del Norte se encuentra en la mitad norte, a partir del paralelo 38, de la península de Corea. Está bordeada por dos mares, al oeste por el mar Amarillo y la bahía de Corea, y al este por el mar del Japón. Su terreno presenta numerosas serranías y montañas, separadas por profundos y estrechos valles.
- Before The Division
- Division of Korea
- Korean War
- Post-War Redevelopment
- Later Years of Kim Il-Sung
- Era of Kim Jong-Il
- Era of Kim Jong-Un
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From 1910 to the end of World War II in 1945, Korea was under Japanese rule. Most Koreans were peasants engaged in subsistence farming. In the 1930s, Japan developed mines, hydro-electric dams, steel mills, and manufacturing plants in northern Korea and neighboring Manchuria. The Korean industrial working class expanded rapidly, and many Koreans we...
At the Tehran Conference in November 1943 and the Yalta Conference in February 1945, the Soviet Union promised to join its allies in the Pacific War within three months of victory in Europe. On 8 August 1945, after three months to the day, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. Soviet troops advanced rapidly, and the US government became anxious t...
The consolidation of Syngman Rhee's government in the South with American military support and the suppression of the October 1948 insurrection ended North Korean hopes that a revolution in the South could reunify Korea, and from early 1949 Kim Il Sung sought Soviet and Chinese support for a military campaign to reunify the country by force. The wi...
Internal politics
Kim began gradually consolidating his power. Up to this time, North Korean politics were represented by four factions: the Yan'an faction, made up of returnees from China; the "Soviet Koreans" who were ethnic Koreans from the USSR; native Korean communists led by Pak Hon-yong; and Kim's Kapsan group who had fought guerrilla actions against Japan in the 1930s. Pak Hon-yong, party vice chairman and Foreign Minister of the DPRK, was blamed for the failure of the southern population to support No...
International relations
Like Mao in China, Kim Il Sung refused to accept Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin and continued to model his regime on Stalinist norms. At the same time, he increasingly stressed Korean independence, as embodied in the concept of Juche. Kim told Alexei Kosygin in 1965 that he was not anyone's puppet and "We... implement the purest Marxism and condemn as false both the Chinese admixtures and the errors of the CPSU". Relations with China had worsened during the war. Mao Zedong criticized Kim...
Economic development
Reconstruction of the country after the war proceeded with extensive Chinese and Soviet assistance. Koreans with experience in Japanese industries also played a significant part.Land was collectivized between 1953 and 1958. Many landlords had been eliminated by the earlier reforms or during the war. Recovery from the war was slowed by a massive famine in 1954–55. Local officials had exaggerated the size of the harvest by 50–70%. After the central government took its share, starvation threaten...
In the 1970s, expansion of North Korea's economy, with the accompanying rise in living standards, came to an end. Compounding this was a decision to borrow foreign capital and invest heavily in military industries. North Korea's desire to lessen its dependence on aid from China and the Soviet Union prompted the expansion of its military power, whic...
Kim Il Sung died from a sudden heart attack on 8 July 1994. The politics in the last years of Kim Il Sung closely resemble those of the beginning of the Kim Jong Il era. Beginning as early as 1990, the economy began a steep decline. From 1990 to 1995, foreign trade was cut in half, with the loss of subsidized Soviet oil being particularly keenly fe...
Kim Jong Il died on 17 December 2011 and was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong Un. In late 2013, Kim Jong Un's uncle Jang Song-thaek was arrested and executed after a trial. According to the South Korean spy agency, Kim may have purged some 300 people after taking power. In 2014, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry accused the government of crime...
Buzo, Adrian (2017). Politics and Leadership in North Korea: The Guerilla Dynasty (2nd ed.). Oxon: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-138-18737-5.Choe Su-nam; Pak Kum-il (2018). DPRK: Seven Decades of Creation and Changes (PDF). Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. ISBN 978-9946-0-1675-7.Cumings, Bruce, et al.. Inventing the Axis of Evil. The New Press. 2004. ISBN 1-56584-904-3French, Paul (2007). North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula: A Modern History (2nd ed.). London: Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-84277-905-7.Media related to History of North Koreaat Wikimedia CommonsSpeak Out About Human Rights In North Korea (a commentary from Human Rights Watch, published in The Asian Wall Street Journal, 16 April 2004)"On North Korea's streets, pink and tangerine buses", The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2005Kim Jong-un (en chosŏn'gŭl, 김정은; en hancha, 金正恩; pronunciado /kim dʑʌŋɯn/; Pionyang, 8 de enero de 1984) 2 es un político, dirigente y dictador norcoreano 3 que ha sido el líder supremo de la República Popular Democrática de Corea desde 2011 y líder del Partido del Trabajo de Corea desde 2012.
- Kim Yo-jong (hermana)
Hace 5 días · North Korea, country in East Asia that occupies the northern portion of the Korean peninsula. It is bordered by China and Russia to the north and by the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to the south. The national capital, P’yongyang, is a major industrial and transport center near the west coast.
history of North Korea, a survey of important events and people in the history of North Korea since the Korean War. For a discussion of the earlier history of the peninsula, see Korea.
Corea del Norte es un Estado autoritario de partido único dirigido por la dinastía Kim. Corea del Sur fue gobernada anteriormente por dictaduras militares de partido único, salvo un breve período democrático entre 1960 y 1961, hasta 1987, cuando celebró elecciones directas.
