Kretchun, Nat; Kim, Jane (10. mai 2012): «A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment»Arkivert 14. januar 2013 hos Wayback Machine. (PDF). InterMedia. Sitat: «The primary focus of the study was on the ability of North Koreans to access outside information from foreign sources through a variety of media, communication technologies and personal sources. The relationship between information exposure on North Koreans’ perceptions of the outside world and their own country was also analyzed.»
Federal Research Division of the US Library of Congress (2007): "«North Korea – Climate. Country Studies.
Federal Research Division of the US Library of Congress (2007): «North Korea – Agriculture». Country Studies.
csis.org
Cordesman, Anthony H. (21. juli 2011): «The Korean Military Balance»Arkivert 11. oktober 2011 hos Wayback Machine. (PDF). Center for Strategic & International Studies. ISBN 978-0-89206-632-2. Sitat: «The DPRK is one of the most militarized countries in the world. It has extraordinarily large anti-aircraft holdings, nearly twice the artillery strength of the Republic of Korea (South Korea), as well as a major advantage in self-propelled artillery and a massive lead in multiple rocket launchers.»
Kihl, Y. W. (1985): «North Korea in 1984: ‘The Hermit Kingdom’ Turns Outward!». Asian Survey25 (1): 65–79. doi:10.1525/as.1985.25.1.01p0229r. JSTOR 2644057
Manyin, Mark E. & Nikitin, Mary Beth (26. april 2012): «Foreign Assistance to North Korea» (PDF), Congressional Research Service Report for Congress. fas.org
Chang, Gordon H. (Mars 2003): «Whose ‘Barbarism’? Whose ‘Treachery’? Race and Civilization in the Unknown United States-Korea War of 1871» i: Journal of American History, Vol. 89, No. 4, s. 1331–1365 i JSTOR
Kihl, Y. W. (1985): «North Korea in 1984: ‘The Hermit Kingdom’ Turns Outward!». Asian Survey25 (1): 65–79. doi:10.1525/as.1985.25.1.01p0229r. JSTOR 2644057
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (April 2007): «Background Note: North Korea». United States Department of State.
telegraph.co.uk
Spencer, Richard (28. august 2007): «North Korea power struggle looms»Arkivert 27. februar 2008 hos Wayback Machine.. The Telegraph (London). Sitat: «A power struggle to succeed Kim Jong-il as leader of North Korea's Stalinist dictatorship may be looming after his eldest son was reported to have returned from semi-voluntary exile.»
Parry, Richard Lloyd (5. september 2007): «North Korea's nuclear 'deal' leaves Japan feeling nervous»Arkivert 26. juli 2008 hos Wayback Machine.. The Times (London). Sitat: «The US Government contradicted earlier North Korean claims that it had agreed to remove the Stalinist dictatorship’s designation as a terrorist state and to lift economic sanctions, as part of talks aimed at disarming Pyongyang of its nuclear weapons.»
Spencer, Richard (28. august 2007): «North Korea power struggle looms»Arkivert 27. februar 2008 hos Wayback Machine.. The Telegraph (London). Sitat: «A power struggle to succeed Kim Jong-il as leader of North Korea's Stalinist dictatorship may be looming after his eldest son was reported to have returned from semi-voluntary exile.»
Parry, Richard Lloyd (5. september 2007): «North Korea's nuclear 'deal' leaves Japan feeling nervous»Arkivert 26. juli 2008 hos Wayback Machine.. The Times (London). Sitat: «The US Government contradicted earlier North Korean claims that it had agreed to remove the Stalinist dictatorship’s designation as a terrorist state and to lift economic sanctions, as part of talks aimed at disarming Pyongyang of its nuclear weapons.»
Cordesman, Anthony H. (21. juli 2011): «The Korean Military Balance»Arkivert 11. oktober 2011 hos Wayback Machine. (PDF). Center for Strategic & International Studies. ISBN 978-0-89206-632-2. Sitat: «The DPRK is one of the most militarized countries in the world. It has extraordinarily large anti-aircraft holdings, nearly twice the artillery strength of the Republic of Korea (South Korea), as well as a major advantage in self-propelled artillery and a massive lead in multiple rocket launchers.»
Kretchun, Nat; Kim, Jane (10. mai 2012): «A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment»Arkivert 14. januar 2013 hos Wayback Machine. (PDF). InterMedia. Sitat: «The primary focus of the study was on the ability of North Koreans to access outside information from foreign sources through a variety of media, communication technologies and personal sources. The relationship between information exposure on North Koreans’ perceptions of the outside world and their own country was also analyzed.»
Myers, Brian Reynolds (1. oktober 2009): «The Constitution of Kim Jong Il» i: Wall Street Journal. Sitat: «From its beginnings in 1945 the regime has espoused—to its subjects if not to its Soviet and Chinese aid-providers—a race-based, paranoid nationalism that has nothing to do with Marxism-Leninism. [...] North Korea has always had less in common with the former Soviet Union than with the Japan of the 1930s, another 'national defense state' in which a command economy was pursued not as an end in itself, but as a prerequisite for rapid armament. North Korea is, in other words, a national-socialist country»
