X-Nico

unusual facts about North Korean



Eugene M. Landrum

He is known primarily for defeating the Japanese in the Aleutian Islands Campaign at the start of World War II, being relieved as commander of the 90th Infantry Division shortly after the D-Day landings, and organizing the Pusan Perimeter to blunt the North Korean offensive during the Korean War.

Kenneth R. Shadrick

During a patrol, Shadrick was killed by the machine gun of a North Korean T-34 tank, and his body was taken to an outpost where journalist Marguerite Higgins was covering the war.

Korean Armistice Agreement

It was signed by U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Harrison, Jr. representing the United Nations Command (UNC), North Korean General Nam Il representing the North Korean People's Army, and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army.

Rail transport in Russia

Joint ventures have been formed to build and operate a port in Rasŏn in North Korea, and rail links connecting that port to the Russian rail network at the North Korean-Russian border Khasan-Tumangang.

Ri Chol-Min

Ri Chol-Min (born August 7, 1980) is a North Korean ice hockey player who is currently playing for Taesongsan of the North Korean Championship.

Taep'oong International Investment Group of Korea

The Taep'oong International Investment Group of Korea is a Pyongyang-based North Korean company established by the National Defence Commission of North Korea.

Yanggakdo

Yanggakdo, or Yanggak Island is a small island in the Taedong River, located about two kilometers to the south-east of the center of the North Korean capital city Pyongyang.


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1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement

The Khasansky District lies near the Sino-North Korean border and the Sino-Russian border and included two disputed regions along the Tumen River.

41 Commando

They raided the North Korean coast with the Republic of Korea Marine Corps until 41 Commando returned to England in December 1951; those who had served less than a year in the commando were drafted into 42 Commando operating in Malaya.

Aerospace Force of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution

In recent years, Iranians developed multi-stage Shahab-4(now apparently shelved), and reportedly also Shahab-5 and Shahab-6, which are said to be derivations of North Korean Taepodong.

Akira Fujiwara

Motohiko Izawa has slammed a number of modern historians like Fujiwara for putting ideology ahead of truth in their belief that the North Korean side was just and that American imperialism and the South Koreans were the villains.

Byung-ho

Jon Pyong-ho (born 1926), North Korean politician, Chief Secretary of the Cabinet's Korean Workers Party Committee

Culture of North Korea

The Flower Girl - the most well-known North Korean theatrical opera and film.

Dandong Langtou Airport

Antung Airfield was a major base for People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) and Korean People's Air Force (KPAF) fighters during the Korean War used in the defense of the supply lines across the Yalu River to the North Korean city of Sinuiju and for engaging attacking USAF aircraft in the area that became known as MiG Alley.

First Republic of South Korea

The resulting Armistice Agreement was signed by the North Korean army, Chinese People's Volunteers and the U.S.-led and Republic of Korea-supported United Nations Command.

Gag order

--sources report 9 to 20 members variously --> of the North Korean Unhasu Orchestra had been executed for making pornography, and that the execution was designed to cover up the involvement of Ri Sol-ju, a former member of the orchestra and now the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Hole in one

According to North Korean state media, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il scored 11 holes-in-one over 18 holes in his first and only round of golf.

Hwang Jini

Novelizations of her life include a 2002 treatment by North Korean writer Hong Sok-jung (which became the first North Korean novel to win a literary award, the Manhae Prize, in the South) and a 2004 bestseller by South Korean writer Jeon Gyeong-rin.

Hwaseong

Hwasong-5, North Korean version of the Scud ballistic missile

Hyuk

An Hyuk (born 1968), North Korean defector who escaped from the Yodok concentration camp

Japanese North Korean

Chongryon, the North Korean-funded ethnic representative organisation for Koreans in Japan

Japanese nuclear weapon program

Fukushiro Nukaga, head of the Japan Defense Agency, said that his government would be justified in mounting pre-emptive strikes against North Korean missile bases.

Jay Lefkowitz

As envoy for North Korean human rights, Lefkowitz has referred to the North Korean government as a “criminal regime,” criticized those who provide Pyongyang with assistance, and urged that China respect the rights of North Korean refugees.

Jean-Baptiste Kim

After becoming a French citizen he was opened to North Korean connections in Europe by meeting a North Korean agent Oon Yung.

Kim Hyon-hui

Soon after joining the North Korean spy agency, Kim was given a new name, Ok Hwa and sent to live in a compound outside of Pyongyang.

Kim Tu-bong

His most famous work was under Ju Sigyeong; later, after participating in the March 1st Movement, he with other Korean leaders of the time established the Provencal government in China and because of his communist beliefs he played an important role in the early North Korean communist regime.

Koreans in Japan

They teach a strong pro-North Korean ideology and allegiance to Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-un.

Repatriation of Zainichi Koreans from Japan conducted under the auspices of the Japanese Red Cross began to receive official support from the Japanese government as early as 1956; a North Korean-sponsored repatriation programme with support of the Chōsen Sōren (The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) officially began in 1959.

KPS 9566

and two groups of three special-purpose characters which spell out the names of the North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung (김일성) and Kim Jong-il (김정일) respectively, in a special decorative font (code points 04-72 to 04-74 and 04-75 to 04-77, respectively).

Larry Allen Abshier

In Crossing the Line, Dresnok claims she was Korean, but in The Reluctant Communist, Jenkins claims she was a Thai woman named Anocha Panjoy who was given to Abshier by the North Korean government.

Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle

In the North Korean capital city of Pyongyang, Western news articles reported that a hidden camera was placed to catch citizens with improper hairstyles.

North Korean abductions of South Koreans

The ex-husband of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, himself a suspected abductee from the South, was allowed to meet his South Korean mother in 2006, but Yokota's parents called the meeting a publicity stunt by Pyongyang, meant to isolate his daughter from her Japanese family, as the man has now remarried a native North Korean and has a son with her.

OPLAN 5029

Discussions in October between US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and South Korean Minister of National Defense Lee Sang-hee over the planned transition of wartime operations to South Korean forces also included continued formulation of an operation plan for a North Korean collapse, after a proposal made in an earlier meeting between the American and South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Panthers Over Korea

It flew 78,000 sorties and was responsible for the first air kill by the US Navy in the war—the downing of a North Korean Yakovlev Yak-9 fighter.

Propaganda in South Korea

During the first North-South talks since the end of the war, the North Korean delegation was brought into the South Korean capital of Seoul.

Roy Chung

They compared his disappearance to several documented abductions by North Korean agents, most notably the kidnap of actress Choi Eun-hee.

Shin Dong-hyuk

Shin, sometimes accompanied by Harden, has given talks to audiences around the world about his life in Kaechon internment camp (Kwalliso No. 14) and about the totalitarian North Korean regime to raise awareness of the situation in North Korean internment and concentration camps and North Korea.

Song Du-yul

According to the North Korean-affiliated Zainichi Korean newspaper Choson Sinbo, he refused conditions placed on him by the South Korean National Intelligence Service, which included a demand that he make a written pledge to respect South Korean law; as a result, his plans to attend the memorial collapsed.

Sport in North Korea

Another North Korean Winter Olympic medal was a bronze in 1992 at the Albertville Games when Hwang Ok-Sil took third place in the women's 500 meters of short-track speed skating.

Sun Mu

One of his portraits of former North Korean leader Kim Il-sung was removed from a Pusan biennale because organizers wanted to avoid problems for exhibiting "pro-communist" art.

SunNet

SunNet is a North Korean telecommunications company that provides 2G GSM wireless services to the city of Pyongyang.

Suzanne Scholte

The Seoul Peace Prize award, instituted in 1990 and given biennially, was declared at the Korea Press Center to honor Suzanne for the contributions she made to the cause of North Korean peoples' freedom and human rights and the refugees of Western Sahara.

SWAT: Target Liberty

But later on, he and his team discovers that Al-Qaeda forces are planning to pin the blame on the North Korean government for the explosion of a nuclear weapon on American soil.

Taep'oong International Investment Group of Korea

Despite the ongoing tension, the Taep'oong has proposed a co-operative solution to the remaining assets of South Korean Hyundai's Mount Kumgang Tourist Region in North Korean territories.

Taepodong

Taepodong-1, a North Korean missile tested on August 31, 1998 at Musudan-ri.

The Berlin File

Confronting the possibility of a double agent within Berlin's North Korean embassy where his wife Ryun Jung-hee (Jeon Ji-hyun) is a translator, Pyo discovers that Pyongyang security authorities have dispatched ruthless fixer Dong Myung-soo (Ryoo Seung-bum) to sort out potentially conflicting loyalties at the consulate.

The Nun and the Sergeant

In a forerunner of The Dirty Dozen, Marine Gunnery Sergeant McGrath (Robert Webber) takes 12 Marines from the brig and trains them to blow up a tunnel behind North Korean lines.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2

Determined to fight the West and quash dissent among the North Korean populace, Jung attacks some of North Korea's largest cities, such as Sinpo and Hyesan.

Ukishima Maru

This view was illustrated in the 2001 North Korean film Souls Protest.

Unit 124

At the time of the identification by Kim Shin-Jo, Park was believed to be an aide to Kim Jong-il and vice minister of the North Korean People's Armed Forces.

Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent

The 2013 recipients of the prize were: Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat, North Korean democracy activist Park Sang Hak, and Cuban civil society group the Ladies in White.

Yalu River

During the war the valley surrounding the western end of the river also became the focal point of a series of dogfights for air superiority over North Korea, earning the nickname "MiG Alley" in reference to the MiG-15 fighters flown by the combined North Korean, Chinese and Soviet forces.

Young-ae

Kim Yong Ae (born 1985), North Korean footballer who represented North Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Zokwang Trading

Kim Hyon Hui, one of the agents who carried out the bombing of 1987 Korean Air Flight 858, stated in her autobiography Tears of my Soul that prior to the bombing, she and her partner Kim Sung-il had used Zokwang Trading's office as a base while living in Macau, learning Cantonese so that she and other North Korean agents could pose as Macau or Hong Kong locals.