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• BBC Radio 3: On Location in North Korea - Listen to this BBC radio documentary recorded in North Korea and view photos of host Andy Kershaw's visit to the country.
• DPRK - Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Links to news and information about North Korea, Juche Thought, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
• Ethnologue - Languages of North Korea - Information about the living languages of the country including population, region, classification, dialects and alternate names.
• Journey to the People's Paradise - Collection of Web links relating to life, culture and the arts in North Korea.
• Korea is One! - Belgian, French and Dutch group formed to promote understanding of North Korea. Offers a pro-North Korean viewpoint, including trip reports and news. In English, Dutch, and French.
• Korea-DPR.com - Official site of the Korean Friendship Association, offering brief information about North Korean society and culture. Other language versions of the site are available.
• Koreascope - Information about the North Korean way of life, from a South Korean perspective.
• Nautilus Institute: DPRK Briefing Book - Topically arranged links to Web resources, such as studies and reference materials, that provide background information relating to security, foreign relations, and economic, humanitarian, and political issues.
• NewsHour Online Forum: The North Korea Famine - A 1997 discussion on famine in North Korea and links to related interviews from the PBS news program The NewsHour.
• NK Missions - The World Center for North Korea Missions - Evangelical Christian ministry seeking to mobilize and coordinate efforts for North Korea missions. Includes discussion forums, news, and information on volunteering and participating.
• North Korean Studies - Articles and links to Web sites about contemporary North Korean society and politics, relations with Russia and Australia, and Soviet Koreans.
• SinoKorea - China-based Web site devoted to information on North Korea. Includes forum. In English and Chinese.
• Stories from the People's Paradise, North Korea - Journalist Ron Gluckman reports on slices of life in North Korea: the 1966 soccer squad that nearly reached the World Cup finals, a museum of lavish birthday gifts to former leader Kim Il Sung, stories of defectors, a train trip to Pyongyang, a visit to the DMZ, Pyongyang's only disco, the state film studio and North Korea's version of the Internet.
• Welcome to North Korea - 2001 film depicts a dichotomy between the poverty of North Koreans and the personality cult and propaganda of their leaders. [53 minutes]

• Asia Times Online - North Korea's Antique Food Rationing - Describes the history and de facto collapse of the North Korean government's Public Distribution System (PDS) which rationed food for a majority of its people. (January 15, 2005)
• BBC News - N Korea Envoys 'Smuggled Drugs' - Turkey deports two North Korean diplomats accused of smuggling amphetamine pills into the country. (December 9, 2004)
• Asia Times - Cracks in North Korean 'Stalinism' - Documents how the major peculiarities of Stalinism are slowly disappearing from North Korea, and how the "Hermit Kingdom" is not as hermetic as the government would like. (December 7, 2004)
• CNN Factsheet - One of the World's Most Secretive Nations - North Korea is one of the world's most authoritarian and secretive nations, with an economy in dire straits after decades of mismanagement. (April 23, 2004)