North Korea (DPRK)
Capital - P'yongyang
Chief of State - Kim Jong-il (since 7/94) and also re-elected (in 9/98) as the Chairman of the National Defense Commission, the position with the "highest administrative authority"; Kim Yong-nam - President of the Supreme People's Assembly Presidium (since 9/98)
Head of Government - Premier Hong Song-nam (since 9/5/98)
Click note for North Korea's National Anthem

Kim Jong-il

Premier Hong Song-nam

• Timeline of North Korea's nuclear weapons development program, by FoxNews.
• A few weeks after removing monitoring seals and cameras form its nuclear facilities, North Korea pulled out of the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty 1/10/03.
• The "Ballistic Missile Merchant", N. Korea will apparently sell weapons to anyone who will buy. 2/14/02
• Blames the "US imperialists" for "all misfortune and sufferings of the Korean people". 1/9/02
• North Korea's Chairman Kim Jong-il and South Korea's President Kim Dae-Jung signed a joint declaration for beginning the peaceful reunification of the two countries 1/22/01.
• The Democratic People's Republic of Korea
• Korea Web Weekly
• The People's Korea

50 yrs after the Korean War Commemoration