North Korea actually has a similar system, but instead, it is based upon the birth of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung. The first year in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea calendar, or Juche calendar, began in 1912, despite the calendar only being put in place in 1997. Only one ...
Inside North Korea The flag of North Korea. (Image credit: Dusan Momcilovic, Shutterstock) In a world where online communication and globalization have broken down international barriers, North Korea stands alone as unusually isolated. The 24 million or so residents of the country live under a ...
Some very interesting facts about North Korea that you may not have known before. 25 things that will surprise you about the hermit country.
15 fascinating facts about North KoreaChloe PfeifferElena Holodny
You know, under normal circumstances in America if there was a group of strange foreigners standing on the edge of a schoolyard taking photos of children there’d definitely be a problem, but I guess it’s okay to do as tourists in North Korea. ...
So, Korea? What’s triggered today’s bombing, Jamie? It was very strange, I kept coming to the page from two days ago and reading about the North Korean chart, then at 2.30pm today I was talkimg about it to a friend, then tonight I see it’s happened! Something activated the Uran...
[7 Strange Cultural Facts About North Korea] Sponsored Links Co-Founder of Google Brain, Andrew Ng, Recommends: 5 Books For Turning Your Life AroundBlinkist: Andrew Ng's Reading List Virtually the only sign that the area is populated is a tiny glow emanating from the capital city of ...
When it comes to technology, North Korea has been especially apt to tout its many homegrown innovations. The ruling ideology of the country, Juche, calls for self-reliance of the Korean nation. In this spirit, these inventions serve as propaganda tools, helping the regime to deceive its ...
The friend said: "That would be even worse than mainland China and down to the level of North Korea? So how can Hong Kong be an international financial center when it does not even have freedom of information on the Internet!" Apart from the issue of Internet freedom, it is also worth...
Thanks to a strange set of circumstances, the administration is slowly reaching the day where it will be forced to make the most difficult of choices: take on China or North Korea. Picking between these two priorities might seem like an almost impossible task. However, certain...