North Korea's gross and systematic violations of human rights violate international law, including contravention of the treaties that North Korea itself has ratified (i.e., the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; ...
With this lack of centralized political power and cultural tradition, North Korea was able to start largely from scratch. This proved useful for constructing a brand-new North Korean cultural identity, stemming from the Soviet cultural current but distinctly North Korean at the same time. ...
joint military exercises between North Korea and the US took place – the largest ever (and virtually unheard of during President Trump’s term). All of this can be seen as stimuli for the North Korean reaction. On the other hand, if there ...
to North Korea. This is what occurred and after completing her three-month education at Hanawon, she chose to settle in Gyeongsang Province due to the lower cost of living and the greater availability of housing. Soon after that, through the help of a broker, her daughter and mother escaped...
Full Text of Russia-North Korea Strategic Agreement - THE INTEL DROP Sputnik has translated the full text of the comprehensive agreement signed by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un during the state visit of the Russian president to North Korea. The full translation of the DPRK-Russia Treaty on Co...
Officially, North Korea's founding juche (self-reliance) ideology supports gender equality. In practice the leadership cult that was entrenched under Kim Il-sung, who led the country from 1948 to 1994, gave patriarchal relations a significant boost. Under Kim Il-sung, the nation was recast in...
The South Korean government thus has a duty to not only offer refugees financial incentives for settling in provincial regions, but to educate them regarding the differences in language and culture within South Korea, the local dialects, the specific and complex linguistic and cultural landscapes ...
In South Korea’s Gangnam district, there’s no better place for that kind of entertainment , than in the Gangnam Perfect Karaoke Hyperblick. It’s one of the posh nightclubs in the Gangnam District, tactfully located at
The Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPRK) is one of the least known, even supposedly inaccessible, tourist destinations, hence the question often posed to past and potential tourists: ‘can you actually go there?’ However, since the mid-2000s, North Korea has slowly opened up ...
The evidence of the few success stories among non-Western countries such as Japan of the Meji restoration, Korea and Taiwan in the 1960s and contemporary China confirms this. As for sufficiency, many of the constraints on economic development cannot be overcome merely by a commitment to limited...