The Democratic People's Republic of North Korea is a country in east Asia. It has a total area of 120,540 km2. The climate is temperate with the rainfall concentrated in the summer. The terrain is mostly hills and mountains separated by deep, narrow valleys with coastal plains wide in the west, and discontinuous in the east. Natural resources are coal, lead, tungsten, zinc, graphite, magnesite, iron ore, copper, gold, pyrites, salt, fluorspar, hydropower, The religion is Ch'ondogyo and Buddhism. The language is Korean.
Korea has long been divided by civil war, and following the Second World War was divided at the 38th parallel into Communist ruled North Korea and American-led South Korea, shortly afterwards an American led United Nations invasion of North Korea from South Korea ensued, but failed and the country remains divided. Research North Korea
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