This article examines the ways in which North Koreans experienced and documented the American bombing campaign during the 1950–1953 Korean War. This bombing killed more than twenty percent of the North Korean population, but the everyday perspective of North Koreans of this traumatic event has ...
North Korea is a country with a population of some 25 million people, located on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula between the East Sea (Sea of Japan) and the Yellow Sea. Formally known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK, it was founded in 1948 when the ...
In 1950, communist forces led by North Korea's military dictator Kim Il Sung invaded the South. By the time an armistice agreement was signed by North Korea, China, and the United Nations in 1953, the war, dubbed a "police action" by the United States,......
When talking about more than 50 thousand people who willingly immigrated to DPRK, will you believe this? But that did happen in Japan and North Korea in 1950-60s history.Tessa Morris-Suzuki's book Exodus to North Korea: the Shadows from Japan's Cold War revealed a long-hidden history of ...
Western cultural ideas were introduced in Korea beginning in the late 19th century. Under communist rule, North Korea underwent a cultural upheaval. Since the 1950s every North Korean has been assigned to a unit outside the family, whether it be a school unit, a military unit, or a work ...
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North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a state in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer area between North Korea and South Korea. The ...
In 1972, Kim revealed a new Socialist Constitution, which codified the “socialist state of Juche.” In it, Kim is described as the “founder of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and father of socialist Korea” as well as the “peerless patriot and defender of socialist Korea.” ...
The Bonds of Brotherhood: New Evidence on Sino-North Korean Exchanges, 1950–1954 of refugees from North Korea, the PRC's economic assistance during the war and in the early postwar reconstruction, and Chinese educational and ideological... A Cathcart,C Kraus - 《Journal of Cold War Studies》...