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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.
In 2007, Asia Press began publishing a magazine entitled Rimjin-gang: News from Inside North Korea in Korean and Japanese.It was started by a Japanese and Korean co-joint editorial group, a chief editor and Japanese journalist, Jiro Ishimaru, and a Korean representative editor, Choi Jin I, author and North Korean defector.
The programme was made by ITN Productions, who had proposed a North Korean documentary to various channels under the title Let's All Go To North Korea.Channel 5's Director of Programmes Ben Frow was not interested in the project at first, but after Michael Palin was hired to front the programme, he changed his mind and decided to commission it for the channel.
Madeleine Gavin, like many readers, was haunted by the story of Hyeonseo Lee, a woman who fled North Korea with her family in the 1990s and documented their perilous journey in her bestselling ...
Daily NK (Korean: 데일리NK; RR: Deilli NK) is an online newspaper based in Seoul, South Korea, [1] [2] where it reports on various aspects of North Korean society from information obtained from inside and outside of North Korea via a network of informants.
In North Korea from 1999 to 2001, Vollertsen practiced medicine with the Cap Anamur Committee, a non-governmental cooperation organization.In August 1999, he and Francois Large, another aid worker, donated their skin to Pak Jong Thae, a tractor factory worker in Haeju, South Hwanghae, who had suffered burns on over three-quarters of his body and underwent three skin grafting operations. [1]
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Jang Jin-sung (Korean: 장진성; born c. 1970–1971) is the pseudonym [2] of a North Korean poet and government official who defected to South Korea.He had worked as a psychological warfare officer within the United Front Department of the Korean Workers' Party.