North Korean

Hermit kingdom citizen

North Korean describes anything relating to North Korea, the isolated communist state occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula.

As a noun, a North Korean is a person from that country.

The term often appears in contexts involving nuclear weapons, authoritarian rule, or the divided Korean nation: North Korean missiles, North Korean defectors. (See also South Korean.)

regime

totalitarian

Dictatorial, all-controlling regime

authoritarian · despotism · tyranny · supreme leader · indoctrination · cult of personality · repression · human rights abuse · state control · surveillance

geography

East Asia

China-Japan-Korea region

DMZ · 38th parallel

nuclear

atomic

Of elemental particles

  • warheadMunition's explosive section
  • missileSelf-guided airborne weapon
  • ICBMOcean-spanning nuclear delivery system

enrichment · uranium · plutonium · reactor · test · proliferation · ballistic · nonproliferation · sanctions · denuclearization

isolation

hermit kingdom

Nation deliberately avoiding outside contact

cut-off · quarantined · inaccessible · closed borders · sanctions · embargo · information blackout · defection · smuggling · sealed

culture

Kimchi

Fermented Korean vegetables

Categories
Opposites
korean peninsula division

North KoreanSouth Korean

From the southern peninsula

American · Western · anti-communist · NATO member · capitalist

political freedom/regime type

North KoreanAmerican

From the U.S.

Western European · Scandinavian · Swiss · Canadian

Family

northern, northwest, northeast, northerly, northward, Korean, northwards, northwestern, northbound

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG