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North Korea offers complete coverage of this fascinating country, including sections on history, geography, wildlife, infrastructure and government, and culture. It also includes a detailed fact file, maps and charts, and a traceable flag.

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Publié par	Capstone Global Library
Date de parution	11 avril 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781406246650
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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Countries Around the World North Korea

Elizabeth Raum

Raintree is an imprint of Capstone Global Library Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales having its registered office at 7 Pilgrim Street, London, EC4V 6LB – Registered company number: 6695582

Text © Capstone Global Library Limited 2012 First published in hardback in 2012 The moral rights of the proprietor have been asserted.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner, except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS (www.cla.co.uk). Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission should be addressed to the publisher.

Edited by Abby Colich and Claire Throp Designed by Ryan Frieson and Steven Mead Original illustrations © Capstone Global Library Ltd, 2012 Illustrated by Oxford Designers & Illustrators Picture research by Ruth Blair Originated by Capstone Global Library Ltd Printed and bound in China by CTPS

ISBN 978 1 406 23549 4 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Raum, Elizabeth. North Korea. -- (Countries around the world) 951.9'3051-dc22 A full catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Note on Romanization of Korean McCune-Reischauer is the Romanization method preferred by academics. This is a phonetic system that reflects Korean pronunciation. But some people find this system difficult because it takes time to learn.

Since 2000, the South Korean government has been using a different system that is easier to learn. North Korea uses yet another method of Romanization that also has numerous exceptions, but it

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy p. 33 (© amana images inc.); Corbis pp. 7 (© Reinhard Krause/Reuters), 13 (© Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters), 14 (© Kim Chul-Soo/epa), 16 (© Wu Hong/ epa), 18, 39 (© Stringer/Korea/Reuters), 22 (© STF/epa), 23 (© Keren Su), 24 (© Miguel Toran/epa), 26 (© kcna/Xinhua Press), 27 (© DAVID GRAY/Reuters), 28 (© Alain Nogues), 30 (© Lee Jae-Won/Reuters), 31 (© David Gray/Reuters), 32 (© Jeon Heon-Kyun/epa), 34 (© Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters), 36 (John Sun/epa); Dreamstime.com p. 5 (© Linqong); Getty Images pp. 10 (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone), 25 (Alexander Hassenstein), 35 (Menahem Kahana/AFP); Photolibrary p. 8 (Tony Waltham); Shutterstock pp. 21 (© zschnepf), 46 (© pdesign).

Cover photograph of the Tower of Juche, Pyongyang, North Korea reproduced with permission of Photolibrary (Tony Waltham/Robert Harding Travel).

We would like to thank Jennifer Jung-Kim for her invaluable help in the preparation of this book.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders of any material reproduced in this book. Any omissions will be rectified in subsequent printings if notice is given to the publisher.

Disclaimer All the Internet addresses (URLs) given in this book were valid at the time of going to press. However, due to the dynamic nature of the Internet, some addresses may have changed, or sites may have changed or ceased to exist since publication. While the author and publisher regret any inconvenience this may cause readers, no responsibility for any such changes can be accepted by either the author or the publisher.

is not used in this book except where the name or term is commonly known in the West (for example, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, Juche).

This book primarily uses the South Korean system except when names are more commonly spelled in a different way (for example, Syngman Rhee and Kim Il Sung). The McCune-Reischauer system is given in parentheses after the first use of the South Korean system.

Contents

Introducing North Korea ................................................... 4 History: the Hermit Kingdom ............................................ 6 Regions and resources: a mountainous land................... 14 Wildlife: where tigers once roamed ................................ 20 Infrastructure: total control ............................................. 22 Culture: follow the leaders .............................................. 28 North Korea today .......................................................... 34 Fact ﬁle ............................................................................ 36 Timeline........................................................................... 40 Glossary........................................................................... 42 Find out more.................................................................. 44 Topic tools ....................................................................... 46 Index................................................................................ 48

Some words in the book are in bold,like this. You can ﬁnd out what they mean by looking in the glossary.

Introducing North Korea

North Korea is officially called the Democratic People’sRepublicof Korea (DPRK). This country occupies the northern half of the KoreanPeninsula.North and South Korea are separated by anartificialboundary called the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The East Sea lies to the east. The Yellow Sea lies to the west. China and Russia form the northern border. North Korea has a total area of 120,538 square kilometres (46,540 square miles), which is a bit smaller than England.

Land of mystery Much about life in modern North Korea remains a mystery. This is because North Korea is one of the mostisolatedcountries in the world. The North Korean government allows few outsiders to visit. Visitors must agree to travel with a North Korean official. The official, called a “minder”, decides where visitors can go, what they can photograph, and whom they can meet. Foreign television crews and reporters rarely visit North Korea. North Koreans rarely travel to other countries. Most North Koreans do not have mobile phones or access to the Internet.

Daily life Koreans greet one another with a simple bow. Children bow to their parents, teachers, and leaders. In North Korea, pictures of the current leader, Kim Jong Il, and his father, Kim Il Sung, are displayed in homes, public buildings, and on outdoor posters. Children and adults bow before these pictures as a sign of respect.

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