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According to a 2014 BBC World Service Poll, Japanese people alike hold the largest anti–North Korean sentiment in the world, with 91% negative views of North Korea's influence, and with only 1% positive view making Japan the third country with the most negative feelings of North Korea in the world, after South Korea and the United States.
A professor of Korean Studies at the University of Hamburg says the emotion is part of a cult of personality. Yvonne Schulz Zinda said, "The Kim rulers are exaggerated, almost godlike perceived."
Han is derived from the Chinese character 恨, which means resentment, hatred, or regret.. Definitions and characteristics of han are highly subjective. According to the Translation Journal, "Han is frequently translated as sorrow, spite, rancor, regret, resentment or grief, among many other attempts to explain a concept that has no English equivalent."
According to the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the American Enterprise Institute, it is based on the political, social, and economic background of one's direct ancestors as well as the behavior of their relatives, songbun is used to classify North Korean citizens into three primary castes—core, wavering, and hostile—in ...
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).
About 600 North Koreans have “vanished” after they were repatriated from China two months ago, according to a Seoul-based human rights organization.
For the first time, North Korean officials have been seen wearing lapel pins with the image of leader Kim Jong Un, another sign the North is boosting his personality cult to the level bestowed on ...
This is a list of Korean given names, in Hangul alphabetical order. See Korean name § Given names for an explanation. List Ga ...