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KFA Story Posts and correspondence about the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) http://www.geocities.com/kfastory 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. http://www.nkmissions.com/ North Korean Studies Articles and links to Web sites about contemporary North Korean society and politics, relations with Russia and Australia, and Soviet Koreans. http://north-korea.narod.ru 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. http://www.nautilus.org/DPRKbriefingbook/index.html Koreascope Information about the North Korean way of life, from a South Korean perspective. http://www.koreascope.org 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. http://www.korea-is-one.org/ Asia Times: Pyongyang Watch Journalist Aidan Foster-Carter writes this commentary on North Korean society, politics and events as a regular column for the Asia Times. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/others/pongyang.html 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, and his visi http://www.gluckman.com/PageNK.htm DPRK - Democratic People's Republic of Korea Links to news and information about North Korea, Juche Thought, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. http://www.kimsoft.com/dprk.htm SinoKorea China-based Web site devoted to information on North Korea. Includes forum. In English and Chinese. http://dprk-cn.com/en Journey to the People's Paradise Collection of Web links relating to life, culture and the arts in North Korea. http://dprk.1accesshost.com/ 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. http://www.korea-dpr.com/ THINK - Their Home Isn't North Korea A non-profit organization based in Tokyo with information and resources on the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea. http://trycomp.swee.to/THINK/ 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. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/nkorea.facts/ 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. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/august97/korea_8-26.html

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