Note: This page being updated as of 10-? September 2009!

Featured Links
• North Korea’s Strategy, by Stephen Bradner (2000) (PDF)
• North Korea’s Direction in Late 2002: Lessons Learned from the 1994 Agreed Framework and the June 2000 North-South Accord
• The Art of Propaganda: Nationalistic Themes in the Art of North Korea
• China’s DPRK Refugee Policy

Official DPRK Government Sites
• DPRK Official Webpage
• Business opportunities in Korea
• DPRK Trade
• DPRK Books (Note: malware warning)
• Naenara
• Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)

Kim Jong-il
• The Supremo in His Labyrinth
• Why Kim Jong-il hates George W Bush
• Kim Jong-il Obtained U.S. Visa in 1997
• Kim Jong-il and the ‘A’ word
• Kim Jong-il’s chef spills the beans
• NK’s deepening succession mystery

Counterfeiting
• No Ordinary Counterfeit
• Tracking the North Korean Supernote
• Nearly Perfect Fake Dollars Complicate Korea Talks

U.S. Defectors in DPRK
• Pvt. James Dresnok (1962-Present)
• Pvt. Larry A. Abshier (1962-1982)
• Cpl. Jerry W. Parrish (1963- ?)
• Pvt. Charles Jenkins (’65-’04) (more)
• Pvt. Roy Chung (1979-?)
• PFC Joseph T. White (1982-1985)

North Korea’s Military
• North Korea Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
• North Korea Special Weapons Guide
• North Korean Nukes (with U.S. OPLAN and CONPLAN information)
• North Korean Intelligence Agencies
• North Korea Maps (more here)
• Korean People’s Army (KPA) – Intro (see Order of Battle links on the right)
• KPA – Equipment
• KPA Air Force (Equipment / Air Bases)
• KPA Navy (Warships / Naval Bases )
• North Korean Special OpS Forces
• Comparative military ranks of Korea
• Capability Analysis of North Korean SF
• NK Special Forces Operations
• How Good Are North Korean Forces?
• USMC NK Handbook (5.5mb PDF)
• Mil Edu Research Library Net (MERLN)

Traveler Accounts & Photos
• Journey into Kimland (Scott Fisher)
• Bow to the Great Leader (P&R Bakker)
• Pyongyang and its People (Lankov)
• My Travels to Pyongyang & NK (Arne Eilers)
• North Korea Travel Pictures
• Images of North Korea
• Koryo Tours

Interesting, Useful, & Bizarre
• North Korea Books
• The Pyongyang Metro
• North Korean Video & Animation
• Pyongyang Art Studio
• Paintings from North Korea
• DPRK News and Sites
• The last disco in North Korea
• NK calls for ban on ‘Team America’
• North Korea’s antique food rationing
• N Korea wages war on long hair
• Cell Phones Spark NK ‘Comm. Revolution’
• Gregorian - Juche Era Conversion Tool
• USS Pueblo

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
• KEDO
• Nuclear Weapons Development Timeline
• North Korea and WMD
• North Korea Special Weapons Guide
• Country Assessments: Korean Peninsula
• Proliferation News - Korea
• WMD and North Korea (North Korea Profile)
• North Korea (DPRK) Special Collection

Human Rights & Defectors
• National Committee on North Korea
• Chosun Journal
• LiNK Global
• North Korea Freedom Coalition
• Hwang Jang-yop Speaks
• Life Funds for NK Refugees
• NK Missions
• North Korea Freedom Act
• Foreign Assistance to North Korea (PDF)
• NK Human Rights Act of 2004 (PDF)
• Analysis: NK Human Rights Act (PDF)
• U.S. Committee for Human Rights in NK
• Testimony: Human Rights in North Korea
• Abuse of NK Refugees and Workers
• Defectors Want to Pry Open North Korea
• “Selling Flowers” (Prostitution in NK)
• Defectors Know Not All Will Survive…
• Death and Terror in NK Gulags

Facts & Figures
• A Country Study - North Korea
• CIA World Factbook - North Korea
• Maps and Geography
• Population

Juche & Propaganda
• Juche
• Korea Is One

Miscellaneous Policy Issues
• Nautilus Institute: Policy Forum
• U.S.-North Korea Relations