North Korea Links

Featured Links
North Korea’s Strategy (PDF)
North Korea’s Direction in Late 2002
The Art of Propaganda
China’s DPRK Refugee Policy
North Korea Books

Official DPRK Government Sites
DPRK Official Webpage
Business opportunities in Korea
DPRK Trade
DPRK Books
DPRK Stamps
SiliBank (email gateway)
Naenara
Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)

Traveler Accounts & Photos
Journey into Kimland (Scott Fisher)
Life After Tyranny (Simon Bone)
Bow to the Great Leader (P&R Bakker)
Pyongyang and its People (Lankov)
My Travels to Pyongyang & NK (Arne Eilers)
North Korea Travel Pictures
North Korea, 2004 (Sylvie Waudby)
Images of North Korea
Koryo Tours

Interesting, Useful, & Bizarre
The Pyongyang Metro
North Korean Video & Animation
North Korean Art
Pyongyang Art Studio
Paintings from North Korea
DPRK News and Sites
The last disco in North Korea
NK calls for ban on ‘Team America’
North Korea’s antique food rationing
N Korea wages war on long hair
Cell Phones Spark NK ‘Comm. Revolution’
Gregorian - Juche Era Conversion Tool
Orders and Medals of North Korea
USS Pueblo

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
KEDO
Nuclear Weapons Development Timeline
North Korea and WMD
North Korea Special Weapons Guide
Country Assessments: Korean Peninsula
Proliferation News - Korea
NK Nuclear Weapons Program
WMD and North Korea
North Korea Profile
Military Options for Dealing with NK
NK: Biological/Chemical Weapons
CNS - NK Special Collection
CNS - 1999 NK nuclear map

Facts & Figures
A Country Study - North Korea
CIA World Factbook - North Korea
Maps and Geography
Population

Juche & Propaganda
Juche
Juche Idea Study Group of England
International Institute of the Juche Idea
Korea Is One

Miscellaneous Policy Issues
North Korea Special Collection
Nautilus Institute: Policy Forum
U.S. Policy Towards North Korea
U.S.-North Korea Relations
Korea Crisis

Kim Jong-il
The Supremo in His Labyrinth
NK elated by Bush’s use of “Mr.” for Kim
Why Kim Jong-il hates George W Bush
Kim Jong-il Obtained U.S. Visa in 1997
Kim Jong-il and the ‘A’ word
Kim Jong-il’s chef spills the beans
NK’s deepening succession mystery
Son of NK Leader Faces Assassination

Counterfeiting
No Ordinary Counterfeit
Tracking the North Korean Supernote
Nearly Perfect Fake Dollars Complicate Korea Talks

U.S. Defectors in DPRK
Pvt. James Dresnok (1962-Present)
Pvt. Larry A. Abshier (1962-1982)
Cpl. Jerry W. Parrish (1963- ?)
Pvt. Charles Jenkins (’65-’04) (more)
Pvt. Roy Chung (1979-?)
PFC Joseph T. White (1982-1985)

North Korea’s Military
Military Capabilities: Conventional Forces
Military Capabilities: WMD
North Korea Special Weapons Guide
NK Nukes (with U.S. OPLAN info)
NK Intelligence Agencies
History: North Korea and Its Military
North Korea Maps (more here)
Korean People’s Army (KPA) – Intro
KPA – Order of Battle
KPA – Equipment
KPA Air Force
KPA Air Force – Equipment
KPA Air Force – Air Bases
KPA Navy
KPA Navy – Warships
KPA Navy – Naval Bases
North Korean Special Forces
North Korean Special OpS Forces
Comparative military ranks of Korea
KPA: A viable threat, or a paper tiger?
Capability Analysis of North Korean SF
NK Special Forces Operations
How Good Are North Korean Forces?
KPA ‘Very Credible Conventional Force’
USMC NK Handbook (5.5mb PDF)
Mil Edu Research Library Net (MERLN)
Orders and Medals of North Korea

Human Rights & Defectors
National Committee on North Korea
Chosun Journal
LiNK Global
North Korea Freedom Coalition
Rescue The North Korean People
Hwang Jang-yop Speaks
Life Funds for NK Refugees
NK Missions
North Korean Refugees
U.S. Senator Sam Brownback - NK
North Korea Freedom Act
Foreign Assistance to North Korea (PDF)
NK Human Rights Act of 2004 (PDF)
Analysis: NK Human Rights Act (PDF)
U.S. Committee for Human Rights in NK
Human Rights Watch: Asia: DPRK
Human Rights Without Frontiers: NK
Testimony: Human Rights in North Korea
Abuse of NK Refugees and Workers
Defectors Want to Pry Open North Korea
“Selling Flowers” (Prostitution in NK)
Defectors Know Not All Will Survive…
Death and Terror in NK Gulags