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Many people in North Korea are suffering from malnutrition and much of the country lives in extreme poverty. Here's what daily life is like.
North Korea has a life expectancy of 72.3 years in 2019, according to HDR 2020. [408] ... The main news provider is the Korean Central News Agency.
29 May – North Korea deploys 260 balloons carrying garbage and possible human waste over South Korea, which Pyongyang says is in retaliation for balloons sent into the North by anti-regime activists. [12] 30 May – North Korea launches a series of short-range ballistic missiles from Sunan-guyok towards the sea near South Korea. [13]
The contemporary culture of North Korea is based on traditional Korean culture, but has developed since the division of Korea in 1945. Juche, officially the Juche idea, is the state ideology of North Korea. Juche displays North Korea's cultural distinctiveness as it is the origin and sole adopter of the ideology. [1]
Almost a decade ago, another American was famously detained in North Korea. Mike Chinoy writes on the remarkable story Merrill Newman, an 85-year-old American tourist and Korean War veteran, who ...
Life expectancy in North Korea Comparison of life expectancy in North Korea and South Korea. Life expectancy at birth [3] total population: 70.4 years male: 66.6 years female: 74.5 years (2016 est.) Total fertility rate [3] 2.09 children born/woman (2006 est.) 1.94 children born/woman (2010 est.) 1.96 children born/woman (2016 est.)
There are many things the rest of the world just doesn’t understand about North Korea. The rogue nation celebrates rocket launches and nuclear testing like no other, and Kim Jong Un antagonizes ...
Human-rights discourse in North Korea has a history that predates the establishment of the state in 1948. Based on Marxist theory, Confucian tradition, and the Juche idea, North Korean human-rights theory regards rights as conditional rather than universal, holds that collective rights take priority over individual rights, and that welfare and subsistence rights are important.