Tag Archive: North Korea

Agriculture and fishing Less than a fifth of North Korea’s surface is cultivable and the far north is the short growing season. The soil is nutrient poor and the rainfall is usually small. The most important crops are rice, corn…
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The thirty years following the end of the conflict marked a relatively peaceful development for North Korea, under the leadership of Kim-Il-Sung, who became president in 1972; the industrialization process continued successfully and the most important political event was the…
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