15 Unexpected Facts About North Korea That You Had No Idea About

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Here are 15 fascinating facts about North Korea, one of the most isolated and ruthlessly ruled nations on earth.🌎🌏🌍

Fact no. 1/ The founder and first leader of North korea , Kim 2nd Sung, created the country's policy of juche or "self reliance" which cut off North Korea economically and diplomatically from the rest of the world even in times of great need , such a famines 

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Fact no. 2/ Kim Jong 2nd , son of the country's founder, has performed amazing feats , according to state controlled media. He scored a perfect 300 the first time he went bowling and sank 11 holes in one of the first time he played golf.

Source ---- Google (edited by factbazz)

Fact no. 3/  During it's seventh decade existence , North korea has been ruled by three generations of the same family, all brutal dictators , Kim Jong Un ( 33 years old) grandson of Kim 2nd Sung , came to power in 2011  , following the death of his father Kim Jong 2nd ...

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Fact no. 4/  Between 150,000 & 200,000 North Koreans live in prison camps surrounded by electrified fencing , according to South Korean government estimates & Human rights watch. The worst camps are for those who commit political crime , and offenders can have their entire extended family imprisoned with them. As many as 40% of camp prisoners die from malnutrition while doing mining, logging and agricultural work with rudimentary tools in harsh conditions, according to a 2011 Amnesty International report..

Source --- Washington Post (edited by factbazz)

Fact no. 5/  North Koreans must abide by one of 28 approved haircuts, unmarried women must have short hair , but married women has many more options. The hair of young men should be less than 2 inches long , older men can go as long as 2¾ inches , according to a Taiwanese Website Want China Times..

Source ----- The mirror ( edited by factbazz)

Fact no. 6/  All legal telivisions are tuned to state-controlled domestic programming. The Internet Doesn't exist other than a closed domestic network. Few North Koreans know anything about world events apart from how they are described by North Korean state propaganda.

Source ---- Extreme Tech (edited by factbazz)

Fact no. 7/ North Korea has conducted five nuclear tests since 2006 , in violation of International law. Two were conducted in 2016, including one that North korea said was a powerful hydrogen bomb. However, the United States doubted that claim. The North korea is believed to have a arsnel of Nuclear weapons but the size is unknown.

Source ---- Time magazine & BBC ( edited by factbazz)

Fact no. 8/ North Korea's missile program was first developed with help from the then Soviet Union in the 1970s. It's long range Taepodong-2 missile is fully ready to reach U.S. territory. Other medium range missile have been fired over Japan..

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Fact no. 9/ The border between North korea and South Korea is one of the most militarized in the world according to the state department. Pyongyang (Capital of North korea) has about 1.2 million military personnel compared with 680,000 troops in South Korea, where 28,000 U.S. troops are also stationed. Nearly 6 million North Koreans are reservists in the worker guard compulsory to the age of 60.

Source --- The Atlantic & NBC news (edited by factbazz)

Fact no. 10/  In 1978 , North Koreans agents kidnapped South Korean film director Shin Sang - Ok and his wife , actress Choe Eun Hui , to create a film industry in North Korea. The couple escaped to the west eight years later, after having made dozens of films...

Source --- Wikipedia (edited by factbazz)

Fact no. 11/ Kim Jong UN's older half brother, Kim Jong Nam was assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia on Feb 13 by two women who used a deadly nerve agent, according to Malaysia government blamed North Korean agents for his murder..

Source --- AP news ( edited by factbazz)

Fact no. 12/  As many as 2 million people died as a result of famine in the 1990s caused by erratic government farming policies and flooding, according to the United Nations Asia press reported that a recent return of famine in the farming provinces of North and South Hwanghae has forced some to resort to cannibalism.

Source --- Daily Express ( edited by factbazz)

Fact no. 13/ Annual GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per person was $1800 , in 2014 among the lowest in the world, according to the CIA World Fact Book. The GDP per person in South Korea in 2016 was $37,900 according to the Factbook..

Source---  Google ( edited by factbazz)

Fact no. 14/ North Korea's regime gets much of it's income by exporting to Japan and elsewhere counterfeit , pharmaceuticals , such as Viagra , narcotics such as methamphetamine, counterfeit cigarettes and fake 100 U.S. bills and by selling small arms and missile parts to terror groups and rouge nations.

Fact no. 15/ North Korea has a network of informants who monitor and report to the authorities fellow citizens they suspect of criminal or subversive behaviour. Unauthorised access to non state radio or TV broadcast is severely punished..

Source --- vox.com (edited by factbazz)

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