The historical and cultural highlights of North Korea are very interesting. Actually, the Korean Peninsula was initially populated by the peoples of a Tungusic branch of the Ural-Altaic language family, who were immigrants from the North Western parts of Asia. The interesting part about this is that a part of these people also occupied certain regions of Northeast China (Manchuria). If noticed well, even today it’s clear that Koreans and Manchurians show similar physical features. All these kinds of interesting info about this country are being published in many North Korea news websites.

The Korean war of 1950-1953 holds a landmark in the history of North Korea. After the setting up of the DPRK, guerilla warfare, border clashes, and naval battles broke out between the North and South Korea. The North Korean forces attacked South Korea on June 25, 1950 by launching a massive surprise attack on the latter. Following this, the conflict issue was prolonged till 1953 with no better comprehensive peace action.

Talking about the North Korea Government, it has a centralized government under the stiff control of the Communist Korean Workers’ Party (KWP), to which all government officials belong. There are three key entities exerting power over the government of DPRK. The cabinet which was commonly known as the State Administration Council (SAC) administers all the ministries and plays a very integral part in implementing the policies of the country. Officially, the country’s legislature, the Supreme People’s Power, is the highest organ of State Power. Members are usually elected every four years. North Korea’s authorities’ board is generally accountable to the SPA and the President. Administratively, the country is divided into nine provinces and two provincial-level municipalities – Pyongyang and Nasun.

Because of North Korea’s isolationist nature, it’s very hard to analyze the human rights record of the country. However, the latest news is that the country exerts severe dictatorship kind of Government that the people are not allowed to violate any of the rules and regulations of the country. Some of the reported human rights abuses are lengthy imprisonment, torturing treatments, very bad prison conditions including incidents of starvation, labor abuse, prohibition of freedom of speech, the press, assembly, religion, elimination of the workers’ rights, etc. Mostly, all of the media sources such as television, radio and the press and heavily controlled by the Government and censored. Internet use is also limited to political usage by the appointed authorities alone. The worst thing is cell phones are also banned to limited networks and international networks are out of usage except to the political elite groups.

Thus, because of the country’s confidential set up, the North Korea news websites are gaining more popularity since they are the only means of accessing the updates about the North Korean Government.

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