News Articles - North Korea
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1 UK Christians raise voice for North Korean believers 26 January 2012
2 Christmas Blessing 2010 continues to bless North Koreans 02 June 2011
3 Border guards kill five defectors 13 January 2011
4 Christmas Blessing packages prepared for North Korean believers 30 December 2010
5 Reach out to suffering North Korean believers this Christmas 18 November 2010
6 Pray for North Korean Christians amid political transition 21 October 2010
7 Underground church leaders executed 12 August 2010
8 Gospel balloons launched 30 June 2010
9 "Dear Leader" celebrates lavish birthday while citizens suffer 18 February 2010
10 Former North Korean propaganda officer now spreads message of Christ 18 March 2009
11 Jailed Christian Aid Worker Freed 30 January 2008
12 Praying For a Revelation in North Korea (PRNK) 23 January 2008
13 Christians Arrested, Whereabouts Unknown 14 November 2007
14 Evangelist Executed for Bible Distribution 17 January 2007
15 Week of Prayer Called for North Korea 25 June 2003
 

North Korea Profile

Location
Asia

Population
24,457,492 (July 2011 est.)

Ethnicity (%)
Racially homogeneous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese

Religion (%)
Non-religious (69.30), Ethnoreligionist (15.50), Other (13.60), Christian (1.48)

Leader
Kim Jong-Un

Government type
Communist state one-man dictatorship

Legal system
Based on Prussian civil law system with Japanese influences and Communist legal theory

Statistics provided by CIA World Factbook and Operation World.