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Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File During the COVID-19 pandemic, North Koreans lived under strict rules and restrictions, some of which may still be in place.
North Korea, [d] officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), [e] 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 (DMZ).
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.)
Staff at Pyongyang Maternity Hospital (2008). North Korea has a life expectancy of 74 years as of 2022. [1] While North Korea is classified as a low-income country, the structure of North Korea's causes of death (2013) is unlike that of other low-income countries. [2]
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea claims that about 800,000 of its citizens volunteered to join or reenlist in the nation's military to fight against the United States, North Korea's state newspaper ...
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]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday dismissed U.S. calls for a return to diplomacy and lambasted its condemnations of the North’s ...
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.