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  2. Religion in North Korea - Wikipedia

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    There are no known official statistics of religions in North Korea. Officially, North Korea is an atheist state, although its constitution guarantees free exercise of religion, provided that religious practice does not introduce foreign forces, harm the state, or harm the existing social order. Based on estimates from the late 1990s [2] and the ...

  3. Freedom of religion in North Korea - Wikipedia

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    e. Freedom of religion in North Korea (DPRK) is officially a right in North Korea. [1][2] In 2022, the UN secretary-general reported that the country's "right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion ... continues to be denied ..." ; [2] NGOs and North Korean defectors reported that any religious activities unauthorized by the state (e.g ...

  4. Political repression in North Korea - Wikipedia

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    People in North Korea suffer political repression in every aspect of daily life, including speech, travel, employment, and religion. The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea for three generations. It exercises absolute centralised power in the service of the political ideology of Juche and Songun. Juche is criticised by many scholars and is ...

  5. Chinese influence on Korean culture - Wikipedia

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    Chinese influence on Korean culture can be traced back as early as the Goguryeo period; these influences can be demonstrated in the Goguryeo tomb mural paintings. [1]: 14 Throughout its history, Korea has been greatly influenced by Chinese culture, borrowing the written language, arts, religions, philosophy and models of government administration from China, and, in the process, transforming ...

  6. Persecution of Christians in North Korea - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The persecution of Christians in North Korea is an ongoing and systematic human rights violation in North Korea. [1][2][3][4][5][6] According to multiple resolutions which have been passed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the North Korean government considers religious activities political crimes, [7] because they could ...

  7. History of Sino-Korean relations - Wikipedia

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    Cultural relations. The Chinese character system, known as Hanja in Korean, was introduced into Korea through the spread of Buddhism during the Tang dynasty. Hanja was used as the sole means of writing Korean until Sejong the Great promoted the invention of Hangul during the 15th century.

  8. China–North Korea relations - Wikipedia

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    Embassy of North Korea in China. The bilateral relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) (simplified Chinese: 中朝关系; traditional Chinese: 中朝關係; pinyin: Zhōngcháo Guānxì, Korean: 조중 관계, romanized: Chojoong Kwangye) have been generally friendly, although they have been somewhat strained in recent years ...

  9. Minorities in North Korea - Wikipedia

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    While North Korea is ethnically and linguistically homogeneous, [1] some minorities in North Korea exist. They include groups of repatriated Koreans, small religious communities, and migrants from neighboring China and Japan. The historical Jaegaseung ethnic group of descendants of Jurchen people used to inhabit villages of their own, under lay ...