Society and Culture

Official site of the Korean Friendship Association, offering brief information about North Korean society and culture. Other language versions of the site are available.

A 1997 discussion on famine in North Korea and links to related interviews from the PBS news program The NewsHour.

Articles and links to Web sites about contemporary North Korean society and politics, relations with Russia and Australia, and Soviet Koreans.

Journalist Ron Gluckman reports on slices of life in North Korea: the 1966 soccer squad that nearly reached the World Cup finals, a museum of lavish birthday gifts to former leader Kim Il Sung, stories of defectors, a train trip to Pyongyang, a visit to the DMZ, Pyongyang's only disco, the state film studio and North Korea's version of the Internet.

China-based Web site devoted to information on North Korea. Includes forum. In English and Chinese.

North Korea is one of the world's most authoritarian and secretive nations, with an economy in dire straits after decades of mismanagement.

Evangelical Christian ministry seeking to mobilize and coordinate efforts for North Korea missions. Includes discussion forums, news, and information on volunteering and participating.

Belgian, French and Dutch group formed to promote understanding of North Korea. Offers a pro-North Korean viewpoint, including trip reports and news. In English, Dutch, and French.

Topically arranged links to Web resources, such as studies and reference materials, that provide background information relating to security, foreign relations, and economic, humanitarian, and political issues.

Listen to this BBC radio documentary recorded in North Korea and view photos of host Andy Kershaw's visit to the country.

Documents how the major peculiarities of Stalinism are slowly disappearing from North Korea, and how the "Hermit Kingdom" is not as hermetic as the government would like.

Describes the history and de facto collapse of the North Korean government's Public Distribution System (PDS) which rationed food for a majority of its people.

Turkey deports two North Korean diplomats accused of smuggling amphetamine pills into the country.

Information about the living languages of the country including population, region, classification, dialects and alternate names.

2001 film depicts a dichotomy between the poverty of North Koreans and the personality cult and propaganda of their leaders. [53 minutes]

Information about the North Korean way of life, from a South Korean perspective.

Despite efforts to put up a front, North Korea is spiraling down to another famine and mass starvation.

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