North Korea

• Korea refers to South Korea and North Korea together, which were a unified country until 1948.

2003

22 March 2003

• North Korea readies for war: UN envoy
  • "BEIJING - North Korea is preparing for a possible war with the United States, according to a UN envoy who returned Saturday from Pyongyang."

2005

May 24, 2005

• 2005-05-24: Weapons of Mass Destruction and Iraq by Council on Foreign Relations.

May 24, 2005. New York, N.Y.

• Craig Whitney gave some interesting statements:
  • "The main reason that the Bush administration gave for going to war against Iraq, as we should remember, was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction [WMD] and links with the terrorists or the kind of terrorists who had carried out the 9/11 attacks against the United States. But we now know that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction to speak of in 2003, when we went to war."
  • "Does it matter to Americans that our country went to war on a false premise?"
  • "People in a democracy I think, need to know why their elected leaders make mistakes when they make them, and voters need to be able to draw their own conclusions about what went wrong when things go wrong. And that’s why Public Affairs commissioned this book, The WMD Mirage, which collects basic documents from the United States and from the United Nations with the idea of offering readers, voters, a factual starting point at least to help build an understanding of what went wrong and what’s been done to try to right the wrong, because WMD has not gone away as an issue in America’s and the world’s attempts to deal with two other important countries: Iran and North Korea."
• Charles Duelfer:
  • "Secondly, and we describe this in some detail in the report, there was a greater concern than we could appreciate sitting here in Washington of the threat posed by Iran. And we just, you know, that our gut feeling for that was not the same as the gut feeling one would have sitting in Baghdad, where you had invaded and killed a lot of those people, and then every once in a while they were throwing rockets at you, so there was an ongoing conflict there. And Saddam was certainly aware of the WMD assessments of Iran and he created intentionally a certain ambiguity about what his capabilities were. So there were mixed motivations."

External links

• Template:Wikitravel
• "Think Again: The Korea Crisis" from Foreign Policy Magazine
• A gulag with nukes: inside North Korea by Jasper Becker
• Bizarre Trip of a Lifetime from the Los Angeles Times, about a group of American "extreme travelers" who visited North Korea in the fall of 2005

North Korean organizations

• Chongryon

Links associated with North Korean government

• Kim Il Sung: 10 Point programme for reunification of the country
• korea-dpr.com - Website officially associated with North Korea. (Maintained from a Texas server by the Korean Friendship Association.)
• Naenara ("My country," in Korean) DPRK's Official Web Portal
• The Korean Central News Agency, The DPRK's news service.

Web sites about North Korea

• "Seoul Train" documentary A critically acclaimed PBS documentary on North Korean refugees (Incite Productions)
• CIA World Factbook - North Korea
• Library of Congress - Country Studies: North Korea - data as of June 1993
• BBC News - Country Profile: North Korea
• Glimpses of a Hermit Nation Los Angeles Times expose from July 3, 2005 on Chongjin and a changing North Korea (Part 1)
• Guardian Unlimited - Special Report: North and South Korea
• Happy Birthday, North Korea - detailed account of travel to 3 sanctioned areas
• Korean Tourist Map
• LookSmart - North Korea directory category
• NKzone - discussions and information exchange on North Korea
• North Korea Resources - background news and analysis of North Korea
• Open Directory Project - North Korea directory category
• Pyongyang Metro System Unofficial Web Site - 1
• Tours / Tourism page of North Korea, with links to other North Korea related sites
• Trading Ideals for Sustenance Second part of Los Angeles Times expose on changing North Korean life (July 4, 2005)
• Yahoo! - North Korea directory category
• Yahoo! News - Full Coverage: North Korea
• Children of a Secret State: Human rights of children in North Korea (Discovery Channel)
• North Korea: A Reporter's Notebook — Luis Ramirez (Voice of America)

Web sites criticizing North Korea

• One Free Korea - Blog focusing on human rights conditions in North Korea
• Another Korea - Background stories on North Korea
• Soon Ok Lee project - website calling for Christian solidarity with Korean refugees.
• Daily NK - North Korea focused daily online newspaper
• ChosunJournal - website focused on DPRK human rights
• Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights - Witness accounts of refugees

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