AsianInfo: North Korea (http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/north%20korea/north_korea.htm)
Complete resource on North Korea includes information on its culture/tradition, art, business, news, travel, and history.
Cyber Unification Education Center / 통일교육센터 (http://www.uniedu.go.kr/index.html)
Providing educational materials on Korean unification, maintained by T'ongil Kyoyukwon, a research institute affiliated with the Ministry of Unification. Presents information on North Korea, introducing North Korean school, curriculum, family, recreation, and value system. Database provides reports, policy commentaries, research papers, with full text, and videos. In Korean.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) (http://www.korea-dpr.com/)
Official North Korean Web page includes general information about its leaders, business, tourism, history, society, culture, and unification issue.
Democratic People's Republic of Korea: North Korea (http://www.kimsoft.com/dprk.htm)
Part of the Korea Web Weekly Web site. Provides information about North Korean leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, travel, the military, and communism. Offers media links as well as links to related sites.
Durihana—North Korean Information Database / 두리하나-북한정보 (http://www.durihana.com/tdsbhmain.htm)
Provides extensive information and essays about North Korea, including North Korean television shows, Kim Jung Il, school textbooks and photographs of everyday life in North Korea. In Korean.
Information Center on North Korea / 북한자료센터 (http://unibook.unikorea.go.kr/new2)
Extensive information resource on North Korea presented by the Ministry of Unification, Republic of Korea. Includes comprehensive explanations of North Korean films, television programs, school textbooks, major anniversaries, military, and North Korea-South Korea diplomatic relationship. In Korean.
Institute of North Korea Studies / 북한연구소 (http://www.nkorea.or.kr/)
Provides general information about North Korea with links to additional resources, including North Korean biographical dictionary. In Korean.
Uriminzokkiri.com / 우리민족끼리 (http://www.uriminzokkiri.com)
This North Korean website presents information about Kim Il Sung, Kim Jung Il, major tourist attractions and national monuments. It also provides research papers, newspapers, magazines of North Korea. In Korean.
Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) / 통일연구원 (http://www.kinu.or.kr/eng/)
Presents information about KINU (located in Seoul)—mission and history, news, and more. Offers a "Digital Library" in which users can search the Institute's online library catalog and house publications. Lists publications by categories with brief bibliographical information, tables of contents, and availability. Links to statistical database, selected Web sites on unification and North Korea, and United States' policies on Korea. In Korean and English.
Korea Scope / 코리아스코프 (http://www.koreascope.com/index/e_index.php)
Provides information about current issues related to North Korea and its reunification policies. Extensive research papers and database provided. Includes news, politics, tourism, foreign trade, media links, arts, IT industry, history, and unification ideas.
Ministry of Unification, Republic of Korea / 통일부 (http://www.unikorea.go.kr/english/index.jsp)
Presents information about Korea unification and North Korea. Offers general information about the Ministry and includes news, educational materials, dispersed family database, research papers, current issues, historical documents of official meetings, and economic cooperation between the two Koreas. The site also presents a guide to North Korea with information about North Korea's society and culture, including folk songs, photographs of everyday life, and languages.In Korean and English.
NKChosun.com (http://nk.chosun.com/)
General information database provided by Chosun Ilbosa, a major daily newspaper in South Korea. Presents news, a factbook, information on economy, arts and culture, tourism, a directory of North Koreans, North Korea chronology (1945 to date), laws, geography, textbooks, North Korea specialists, photos, reports of human rights, historical documents and archives (including downloadable special reports to international organizations), and links to related resources. The archive is indexed by date and by document type. Searchable. In Korean.
NationMaster.com. Asia: Korea, North (http://www.nationmaster.com/country/kn-korea-north)
NationMaster links to brief background information and facts and figures by category—including people, agriculture, government, and health.
NAENARA (http://www.kcckp.net/en/)
Democratic People's Republic of Korea official government Web site. Includes news, politics, tourism, foreign trade, media links, arts, IT industry, history, and unification ideas. In Korean, English, Chinese, Spanish, and other languages.
North Korean Studies (http://north-korea.narod.ru/index.html)
Current information about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its relations with Russia and Australia, economic reform, North Korean defectors, history, and useful links. Searchable. Maintained by Leonid A. Petrov, Korean Studies chair, Asia Centre, Sciences Po, Paris.
Open Directory Project. Regional: Asia: North Korea (http://www.dmoz.com/Regional/Asia/North_Korea/)
Links to a wide variety of Web sites culled from major search engines. The number of sties is listed next to teach category.
Pyongyang Square (http://www.pyongyangsquare.com)
Information on the DPRK (North Korea) to include security issues such as nuclear proliferation, analysis of economic and political issues in the regional context, information on the railway, aid, and resources, and a portal to media, culture, tourism, business, research and humanitarian organizations. Pyongyang Square seeks to provide a balanced and objective view on DPRK-related developments with reports based on Internet research, but has not been updated since early 2005.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook: North Korea (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kn.html)
General information and statistics about North Korea, with the following subdivisions: introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs. Background Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2792.htm)
General facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, reunification efforts, and areas of special sovereignty.
U.S. Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. Country Profile: North Korea (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/North_Korea.pdf)
Reference guide offering brief, summarized information on North Korea’s historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security.
U.S. Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. North Korea: a country study (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/kptoc.html)
The Federal Research Division (FRD) of the Library of Congress published in 2007 an extensive handbook entitled North Korea: a country study. The text and selected graphics of the xxx-page work are available in an electronic format on the FRD Web site. The reader can search for words or variants of words, within one country study or across multiple studies. The country study can be downloaded, one section at a time, and saved as an html or txt file.
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