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Exploring North Korea: A Knowledge Quiz

This quiz tests your knowledge on various aspects of North Korea, including its population, leadership, currency, and historical events. Challenge yourself and learn more about this intriguing country!

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1 What is the population of North Korea?

2 Who of the following is/was the leader of North Korea?

3 North Korea - Link Collection (________ Libraries GovPubs)

4 What is the currency of North Korea?

5 What is the area of North Korea in square km?

6 North Korea refused to participate in a ________–supervised election held in the south in 1948, which led to the creation of separate Korean governments for the two occupation zones.

7 What is the top level internet domain of North Korea?

8 Hanja (________) are no longer used in North Korea, although still occasionally used in South Korea.

9 Which of the following lead to the establishment of North Korea?

10 What is the leader of North Korea called?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Ch'onma-ho is a little known, indigenously produced North Korean tank; information on which has proven to be elusive even to the U.S. government.
  • the 1952 attack on the Sui-ho Dam knocked out electrical power to North Korea for two weeks during the Korean War.
  • more than six thousand Japanese people settled in North Korea voluntarily in the 1960s, accompanying ethnic Korean spouses returning under a repatriation campaign supported by the Japanese and North Korean governments.
  • the July Theses, a set of proposals found in a speech by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, were inspired by his visits to Communist China, Korea and Vietnam.
  • the Special Boarding Unit was created by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces in response to the alleged presence of North Korean spy ships in Japanese waters in 1999.
  • to combat illegal entry by foreign nationals, India and China are currently building security barriers at their borders with Bangladesh and North Korea respectively.
  • the first Protestant church in Korea was founded in 1884 at Sorae in present-day Ryongyon county in South Hwanghae, North Korea.
  • the designer of the Okryu Restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea, would later spend 38 years in a South Korean prison for spying.
  • in North Korea, the question "How good was the taste of sungeoguk (trout soup)" is used as a common greeting to people returning from Pyongyang.
  • in 2003, North Korea became the first state to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since it came into force in 1970.
  • Song Hye-rang is a North Korean defector who looked after Kim Jong-nam, the child of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
  • Song Du-yul, a professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Münster in Germany, was the only South Korean to attend the 1994 funeral of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung.
  • Charlotte Glennie became the first New Zealand journalist to officially film in North Korea.
  • On the Green Carpet was the first North Korean film to be invited to the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was screened in 2004.
  • Unsung Heroes, a twenty-part North Korean spy film series, cast U.S. Army defectors Charles Jenkins and Joe Dresnok in the role of villains.
  • diplomat Ted Lipman, the current Canadian ambassador to North Korea and South Korea, is married to Chinese singer Dadawa.
  • among Korean regional cuisine, the luxurious style of Kaesong cuisine of North Korea is frequently compared with those of Seoul and Jeolla cuisines of South Korea.
  • according to official North Korean sources, the opera The Flower Girl was written exclusively by North Korean leader Kim Il-sung.
  • age controversies in gymnastics once resulted in the North Korean women's team being banned from the World Championships.
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