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The Korean Demilitarized Zone is visible at night from space because of a noticeable lack of lighting in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. The Korean Demilitarized Zone intersects but does not follow the 38th parallel north, which was the border before the Korean War. It crosses the parallel on an angle, with the west end of the DMZ ...
Censorship is a form of media monopoly, where the government oversees all media content in order to maintain obedience. North Korea utilizes a three-tiered approach to control its citizens at the ideological, physical, and institutional level. [4] This applies not only to North Korean residents but also to visitors.
Kwangmyong (network) Kwangmyong (광명 lit. 'Bright Light') [1] [2] is a North Korean "walled garden" national intranet service [3] opened in the early 2000s. The Kwangmyong intranet system stands in contrast to the global Internet in North Korea, which is available to fewer people in the country.
The mass media in North Korea is amongst the most strictly controlled in the world. The constitution nominally provides for freedom of speech and the press. However, the government routinely disregards these rights, and seeks to mold information at its source. A typical example of this was the death of Kim Jong Il, news of which was not ...
A sailor checks an identification card (ID) before allowing a vehicle to enter a military installation. In physical security and information security, access control ( AC) is the selective restriction of access to a place or other resource, while access management describes the process. The act of accessing may mean consuming, entering, or ...
History Korean Central Intelligence Agency. The agency’s origins can be traced back to the Korean Counterintelligence Corps (KCIC), formed during the Korean War.The KCIA was founded on 13 June 1961 by Kim Jong-pil, who drew much of the organization's initial 3,000-strong membership from the KCIC.
Diplomatic relations between South Korea and the United States commenced in 1949. The United States helped establish the modern state of South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, and fought on its UN -sponsored side in the Korean War (1950–1953). During the subsequent decades, South Korea experienced tremendous economic, political and ...
The low-level concrete ledge running between the two soldiers is the border mark in the security area. The Joint Security Area ( JSA, often referred to as the Truce Village or Panmunjom) is the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where North and South Korean forces stand face-to-face. [1] [2] The JSA is used by the two Koreas ...