North+Korea

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 * North Korea **

//Current Leader// - Kim Jong II (Since July 1994) //Government Type//- Communist state, one-man dictatorship //Legal System//- Based on prussian civil law system with Japense influences and communist legal theory; no judicial review of legislative acts, has not accepeted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction //Sufferage Age//- 17 years of age
 * //Political Information//** 



// **Social** Population//- 22,665,345 (July 2009) //Life Expectancy//- Total:63.81 years, Female:66.53 years, Male:61.23 years //HIV/AIDS Rate//- NA //Ethnic and Religous Groups//- Racially homogenous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japenese, the religion is traditionally Buddhist and Confucianist, some Christain and Syncretic Chondogyo. //Literacy Rate//- Age 15 and over can read and write. Total: 99%

media type="custom" key="5841027" //Currency and Exchange Rate//- Currency is won and the exchange rate is $27.82 billion //Poverty Rate//- NA //Major Industries//- Military products, machine building, electric power, mining, chemicals, metallurgy, textiles, food processing, and tourism //Major Imports and Exports//- Imports: petroleum, cooking coal, machinery and equipment, textiles,and grain. Exports: minerals, textiles, fishery products, manufacturers, agricultural products, and metallurgical products //Natural Resources-// Electricity, gas, and oil //GDP Per Capita-// $1,800 (2008) - Famine claimed two-three million lives - Two years of floods - Severe droughts - Becasue of weatrher only 10% of rice fields could be worked - Mainutrient, malnurished, and hunger - Large increase in price of basic foods - Not getting paid enough so it is hard to provide for their family - There is always the risk of a natural disaster
 * //Economic//**
 * //Current Problems//**

**Abandon disarmament over U.S. exercises** North Korea has decided it would no longer move forward with nuclear disarmament in response to a planned U.S.-South Korean joint military exercise. North Korea also announced it would no longer abide by the armistice that brought a truce to the Korean War, saying that South Korea violated the agreement by participating in the military cooperation with the United States. All talks between North Korea, the United States and South Korea will be suspended if the joint exercises go through as planned.
 * //Current Events// **

media type="custom" key="5846711" width="140" height="140" North korea is in a big crisis and is on the verge of crumbling. They are having many nuclear issues in North Korea and now they want to sign a peace agreement. North Korea relies on its nuclear weapons program because of a crumbling military. The North Korean army struggles with aging weapons, poorly trained, out of shape soldiers, inflexible leaders, and corruption.