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For what it’s worth, there’s a kimchi recipe on this site.

official dprk sites

• Korea-DPR.com
• DPRKorea.com
• Downloadable North Korean magazines at DPRKorea.com
• Korean Central News Agency
• The People’s Korea
• Naenara, containing DPRK publications
• Naenara: Korea is One (in Korean)

human rights abuses in north korea

• Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights monitors abuses in the DPRK
• Human Rights Without Frontiers Int.: North Korea Project
• Amnesty International 1999 Annual Report on North Korea
• Human Rights Watch: North Korea

other dprk-related sites

• North Korea Zone
• Koreascope
• The Korea Herald
• Koreaspot
• North Korea, Through the Looking Glass, from the Brookings Institute
• Kimchi and Insam’s Aviation Page with information about Pyongyang and Air Koryo
• North Korean Studies at the Australian National University
• Korea WebWeekly
• North Korea Special Weapons Guide
• Wikimapia now offers high-resolution images of Pyongyang
• www.DPRK-TV.com, in Chinese

dprk merchandise

(Note that although their sites are mostly in Chinese or Japanese, these companies will reply to e-mail in English.)

• Rainbow Trading Co., Tokyo
• www.korea-publ.com
• North Korea Books, Winnipeg
• Chiao Liu Publications, Hong Kong
• Eastview.com, mostly Russian periodicals, but some North Korean titles

travel to north korea

• Koryo Tours, Beijing
• VNC Asia Travel, Netherlands
• FarRail Tours, railway enthusiast tours, Berlin

travel accounts of north korea

• You might like to look at my own North Korea travelogue from 1998.
• Pyongyang.jpg, source of the guidebook images
• Pyongyang and its People The notes of a Soviet student who lived in the DPRK
• Please Bow Down to the Great Leader
• David and Bill’s Daily Travel Diary: North Korea
• Images of the DPRK at Travel-Images.com
• Around the World in 80 Clicks: North Korea
• Photos from the DPRK by Tim Beal
• Ari on the Web: Pyongyang Metro
• Pyongyang’s Transport of Delight by Rob Dickinson: Great page with lots of tram pictures

subways, tramways, and railways

• UrbanRail.net: Fantastic source of information about all the world’s metro systems (Pyongyang page)
• Pyongyang Metro page on Wikipedia
• Into the Secret Country of North Korea: Many pictures of the DPRK, including one of a Pyongyang Metro escalator guard
• Pyongyang Metro Album
• More pictures with German description
• Erlebnis Bahn (in German) — contains information about the German trains sold to Pyongyang
• Osamu Abe’s home page with lots of maps
• Erlebnis Bahn (in German) — contains information about the German trains sold to Pyongyang
• U-Bahn Berlin Unofficial site in German with more Pyongyang info
• Berlin U-Bahn Maps contains network maps from the divided city
• Korean National Railroad
• The Seoul Subway (SMSC) and SMRT
• BVG, the Berlin transit authority
• VBZ, the Zürich transit authority
• Tramverein Bern
• Athens ISAP line
• China Rail by Allen Zagel
• Changchun Car Company

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