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t. e. The COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea was part of a global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). North Korea confirmed its first case on 8 May 2022. North Korea is a secretive and diplomatically isolated country in East Asia.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a demonstration of new exploding drones designed to crash into targets, state media said Monday, as the U.S. and South Korea engage in joint military drills.
The North's trade volume rose 74.6% to $2.77 billion in 2023, after growing by a record high of 123.9% in 2022, when the North started to ease border controls from the pandemic. The figure ...
Lee Sang-kyu, a nuclear engineering expert at South Korea's Korea Institute for Defense Analysis, said North Korea is estimated to have 80-90 nuclear warheads of uranium and plutonium, and that is ...
The politics of North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK) takes place within the framework of the official state philosophy, Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. Juche , which is a part of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, is the belief that only through self-reliance and a strong independent state, can true socialism be achieved.
The Korean conflict is an ongoing conflict based on the division of Korea between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and South Korea (Republic of Korea), both of which claim to be the sole legitimate government of all of Korea. During the Cold War, North Korea was backed by the Soviet Union, China, and other allies, while South ...
North Korea–South Korea relations. Formerly a single nation that was annexed by Japan in 1910, the Korean Peninsula was divided into the occupation zones in North and South Korea at the end of World War II on 2 September 1945. The two separate governments were founded in the two regions in 1948, leading to the formal division.
The European Union has imposed a series of sanctions against North Korea since 2006. These include: [2] embargoing arms and related materials. [2] banning the export of aviation and rocket fuel to North Korea. banning the trade of gold, precious metals, and diamonds with the North Korean government. [2]