Abductions of Japanese citizens from Japan by agents of the NorthKorean government took place during a period of six years from 1977 to 1983. Although...
residents of Japan. The term Zainichi Korean refers only to long-term Korean residents of Japan who trace their roots to Korea under Japanese rule, distinguishing...
Japanese people in NorthKorea are people of Japanese descent living in NorthKorea. They consist mainly of four groups: prisoners-of-war in the Soviet...
that persisted until Korea's 1945 liberation. As Korean resistance against Japanese rule intensified, Japanese replaced Korean police system with their...
Five Northern Korean Provinces under South Korean administration NorthKorea portal Heraldry portal List of NorthKorean flags Korean Unification Flag...
succeeding Korean Empire (1897–1910) was annexed in 1910 into the Empire of Japan. In 1945, after the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, Korea was...
geographically proximate languages of Japanese (part of the Japonic languages) and Korean (part of the Koreanic languages) share considerable similarity...
708 NorthKorean defectors and 15,675 NorthKorean children in China's same three Northeastern Provinces which are Jilin, Liaoning and Yanbian Korean Autonomous...
exchange for the NorthKorean won, the nonconvertible NorthKorean currency. The South Korean government's estimate placed NorthKorea's GNP in 1991 at...
nationalities: Korean (99.998%) and Other (0.002%). Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan in 1910, in which the Korean Peninsula was occupied by Japanese. In...
The JapaneseKorean Army (朝鮮軍, Chōsen-gun, lit. 'Korean military') was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army that formed a garrison force in Korea under...
series) NorthKorea portal South Korea portal Modern history portal List of border incidents involving North and South KoreaKorean conflict Korean reunification...
The NorthKorea national football team (Munhwaeo Korean: 조선민주주의인민공화국 국가종합팀 (NorthKorean romanisation: Josŏn minjujuŭi inmin konghwaguk kukka chonghap...
from NorthKorea wash up on Japanese shores; some of the boats house the remains of their crew. These "ghost ships" are believed to result when North Korean...
The Korean independence movement was a series of diplomatic and militant efforts to liberate Korea from Japanese rule. The movement began around the late...
Japanese formally signed a declaration of surrender. Liberation Day is the only Korean holiday that is celebrated by both NorthKorea and South Korea...
to resolve the confrontation on the Korean peninsula (known as the Korean conflict). At the same time, NorthKorea acquired nuclear weapons, adding to...
remains in use in South Korea. A province (Korean: 도; Hancha: 道) are the highest-ranked administrative divisions in NorthKorea. Provinces have equal status...