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Brookings Institution

• Update on the Six-Party Talks
  Talk by Ambassador Christopher R. Hill Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, February 22, 2007.

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Daily Analysis: Tentative Deal on N. Korea Nukes
  B CFR.org Staff, February 14, 2007.

U.S. Department of State

• Korea, North
  Sections include: Highlights ; Reports ; Remarks ; Press Releases.
  • Briefing on North Koreaís Announcement to Conduct Nuclear Tests in the Future (October 3, 2006)
    Ambassador John R. Bolton,U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations;Remarks to the media following a Security Council Stakeout;New York City

BBC - Country Profiles - North Korea
Sections include: Latest News ; Overview ; Facts ; Leaders ; Media ; Nuclear Tensions ; Inside North Korea.

Library of Congress Country Studies - North Korea
Sections include: Country Profile ; Historical Setting ; Society & Environment ; The Economy ; Government & Politics ; National Security ; Bibliography ; Glossary.

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - The World Factbook

• Korea, North
  "In general, information available as of 1 January 2002 was used..."
  Sections include: Introduction ; Geography ; People ; Government ; Economy ; Communications ; Transportation ; Military ; Transnational Issues.

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Arms Control Association

• North Korea
  Sections include: Documents ; News ; Analysis.
  • Initial Pact Reached to End North Korea Nuclear Weapons Program
    By Paul Kerr, Arms Control Today, March 2007.
  • Arms Control Today (November 2006)
    Theme: North Korean Nuclear Test
  • ACA Events: North Korea: What Next?
    "Prepared Remarks by Daryl G. Kimball to the ICAS 2006 Fall Symposium on Korean Peninsula Issues, October 2006."
  • Next Steps on the North Korean Nuclear Challenge
    Arms Control Association Press Briefing Transcript, September 2006
  • North Korea and Iran: Test Cases for an Improved Nonproliferation Regime? (December 2003)
    By Joseph Cirincione and Jon B. Wolfsthal

Asian Historical Architecture
"...thousands of online photos of historical architecture in Asia from China, Japan, North & South Korea, Cambodia, Thailand, Nepal, India, Pakistan, & Afghanistan"
Maintained by Tim Ciccone, Yunsheng Huang (UVA)

AsianInfo.org
Sections include: News ; Regions ; Asian Calendar ; Country Maps ; Country Profiles ; History Timeline ; World Statistics.

• North Korea

AsiaSource
A Resource of the Asia Society

• Country Profile - North Korea

Brookings Institution

• Update on the Six-Party Talks
  Talk by Ambassador Christopher R. Hill Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, February 22, 2007.
  • Pyongyang's Nuclear Ambitions: China Must Act as a "Responsible Stakeholder"
    By Jing Huang and Xiaoting Li, October 13, 2006.
    
• Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
  • What I Saw In North Korea
    By Charles L. Pritchard
    The New York Times, January 21, 2004
  • The North Korea Deadlock: A Report from the Region
    Live from the Brookings Institution, January 15, 2004.
    Keynote Speaker: Charles "Jack" Pritchard, Reflections on a just-concluded private visit to Pyongyang followed by panel discussion moderated by James B. Steinberg.
  • The U.S. Must Lead
    Op-Ed by Jae Ho Chung
    South China Morning Post, April 10, 2003
• Opinion
  • Where Are the Hawks on North Korea?
    The American Prospective, February 1, 2003
    By Ivo H. Daalder, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Next Steps on North Korea: Options Beyond Sanctions
  Panel discussion with Michael Swaine, Randall Schriver, and Alan Romberg, October 12, 2006. Full transcript available.

CNN.com In-Depth - Two Koreas
Sections include: S. Korea's New President ; N. Korea's Missile Program ; Japanese Abductees ; North-South Relations ; N. Korean Economy ; Features ; Resources ; Latest Reports.

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Daily Analysis: Tentative Deal on N. Korea Nukes
  B CFR.org Staff, February 14, 2007.
• Crisis Guide: The Korean Peninsula
  "Chapters" include: Overview ; Parties to the Dispute ; Military Balance ; Nuclear Facilities ; Missile Program ; Economic View ; Historical Background ; Resources.
• Backgrounder: China's Relationship with a Nuclear North Korea
  By Carin Zissis, October 2006.

Foreign Affairs
Published by the Council on Foreign Relations

• Did North Korea Cheat?
  By Selig S. Harrison, January/February 2005
• How to Deal With North Korea
  By James T. Laney and Jason T. Shaplen, March/April 2003.

George Washington University - National Security Archives

• North Korea's Collapse? The End Is Near -- Maybe
  National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Boo No. 205
  Edited by Robert A. Wampler, October 2006.
• North Korea and the United States: Declassified Documents from the Bush I and Clinton Administrations
  National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book, No. 164.
  Edited by Robert A. Wampler, August 2005.
• North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: The Declassified U.S. Record
  National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 87.
  Edited by Robert A. Wampler, April 2003.

Global Security - (dead link)

• North Korea - Nuclear Weapons Program - (dead link)
  • Nuclear Weapons Testing - (dead link)
    Regarding the Korean Central News Agency announcement on October 09, 2006 the had successfully conducted an underground nuclear test.
  • P'unggye-yok - (dead link)
    "On October 3, 2006, North Korea announced that it would "in the future conduct a nuclear test ", though no date was specified. Though no location was specified, the North Korean announcement followed August 2006 reports of suspicious activity outside P'unggye-yok, an underground facility in northeast North Korea..."

International Crisis Group (ICG)

• North Korea's Nuclear Test: The Fallout
  Asia Briefing No. 56, November 2006.
• After North Korea's Missile Launch: Are the Nuclear Talks Dead?
  Asia Briefing No. 52, August 2006.

Korea Institute For National Unification (Korean or English)

• North Korea's Nuclear Test and U.S.'s North Korea Policy
  By Hyeong Jung Park, October 2006.

Korea Maps
- University of Texas Perry-Castañeda Map Collection

Korean News (English or Korean)
News From Korean Central News Agency of DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)
"...is the state-run agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It speaks for the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government...The KCNA is in charge of uniform delivery of news and other informations to mass media of the country, including newspapers and radios."

[Korean War] American RadioWorks - Korea: The Unfinished War
"To fully grasp the ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended fifty years ago this summer. John Biewen and Stephen Smith of American RadioWorks examine the often-overlooked war that helped define global politics and American life for the second half of the 20th century."
Sections include: Radio Documentary (listen to the hour-long documentary or read the full transcript) ; Oral History Archive ; The Cold War Turns Hot ; Reporter's Notebooks ; The Armed Forces Integrate ; What the Experts Say ; Maps ; Links.

North Korea WWW Virtual Library
Edited by Dr. M.Y. Han, Dept. of Physics, Duke University

PBS - Frontline - Kim's Nuclear Gamble (April 2003)
"Examining the highly unstable relationship between the U.S. and North Korea and how it has brought the world to the brink of a nuclear showdown."
Sections include: Analysis: The Crisis ; Who Are the North Koreans? ; Chronology ; The North's Nuclear Capability ; Interviews ; Readings & Links ; Producer's Chat ; Teacher's Guide ; Tapes & Transcripts ; Press Reaction.

U.S. Department of the Army

• Report of the No Gun Ri Review (January 2001) [.pdf]
  Admitted for the first time that "an unknown number of Korean civilians were killed or injured" by U.S. forces near No Gun Ri in 1950 during the Korean war.

U.S. Dept. of the Treasury

• Sanctions Program and Country Summaries
  • North Korea
    Overview of Sanctions

Arms Control Association

• North Korea
  Sections include: Documents ; News ; Analysis.
  • N. Korea's Uranium-Enrichment Efforts Shrouded in Mystery (May 2003)
    By Paul Kerr.
  • 1994 U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework
    Geneva, October 21, 1994.

Arms Control Today
Published by the Arms Control Association.

• North Korea Special Issue (May 2003)
  Sections include: Focus ; An Introduction ; News and Negotiations ; Feature Articles ; Profiles ; Document ; Bibliography.

AsiaSource
A Resource of the Asia Society

• Special Report: North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program
  Sections include: 1994 Agreed Framework ; Commentary ; News ; General Links.

Brookings Institution

• North Korea - (dead link)
  • A "Master Plan" to Deal With North Korea - (dead link)
    By Michael E. O'Hanlon
    Policy Brief #114, January 2003
• Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
  • Giving Lip Service with an Attitude: North Korea's China Debate
    By Alexandre Mansourov
    Asia's China Debate, December 2003
  • The U.S. Must Lead
    Op-Ed by Jae Ho Chung
    South China Morning Post, April 10, 2003

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• The World Just Got Safer. Give Diplomacy the Credit
  By Joseph Cirincione.
  Re: North Korea, Iran, Libya.
  This piece first appeared in the Washington Post Outlook section on January 11, 2004.

CNN.com Special: Nuclear Crisis - North Korea
Sections include: Latest Reports ; Videos ; Resources ; Features ; Related Sites.

Corriere della Sera (Italy)

• Iran, Iraq, North Korea: Bush is No Longer Just Muscles
  Philip H. Gordon, Op-Ed, July 17, 2006

Monterey Institute of International Studies - Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

• North Korea Special Collection
  Sections include: Crisis ; General ; Nuclear ; Agreed Framework ; Missile.
  Includes satellite photos of Yongbyon Nuclear Complex.
  • Russian Policy on the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
    A report by Clay Moltz, May 5, 2003.

Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
"...is working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and is co-chaired by Ted Turner and Sam Nunn."

• North Korea Profile

PBS - Frontline - Kim's Nuclear Gamble (April 2003)
"Examining the highly unstable relationship between the U.S. and North Korea and how it has brought the world to the brink of a nuclear showdown."
Sections include: Analysis: The Crisis ; Who Are the North Koreans? ; Chronology ; The North's Nuclear Capability ; Interviews ; Readings & Links ; Producer's Chat ; Teacher's Guide ; Tapes & Transcripts ; Press Reaction.

PBS - The Online NewsHour: North Korea: Nuclear Standoff
Sections include: In the News ; Reports ; Profiles ; Resources ; Interactive ; For Students and Teachers.

• Background Report: North Korea's Nuclear Program

RAND Monographs (free online versions)

• North Korean Paradoxes: Circumstances, Costs, and Consequences of Korean Unification
  By Charles Wolf, Jr., Kamiljon T. Kkramov, 2005.

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