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How did the KPA cross the Han River on 28 June 1950?
Did they not have to cross the river to capture Seoul?
They did not... mostly.
At the time, most of Seoul was north of the Han River; in particular all of the important government buildings and ...
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Why is North-Korean communist leader Kim Il-sung called Kim Ir Sen in some languages?
The Korean language has a different set of phonemes compared to most Indo-European languages.
Phonemes are individual sounds that are distinguished in pronunciation and used to differentiate words. ...
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Did Kim Jong-Il wrest away power (rather than inherit it) from Kim Il-Sung in a power struggle?
Jang Jin-Sung appears to be the first author to describe a coercive transition from Kim Il-Sung to Kim Jong-Il. Rather than being common knowledge, his claim is a newly well-known story told by a ...
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How didn't the North Koreans catch the pun "We paean the DPRK. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung"?
There are a couple reasons.
The first is that this was an "official" communication, which is to say that it was a written communication. So Commander Bucher chose a very sophisticated but ...
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Why have North and South Korea stopped marching together at the Olympics?
Because it was decided that the two teams would compete separately.
Originally, there were hopes for the two teams to not only march as one in the 2008 Olympics, but to compete as a single entity, a '...
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How did the KPA cross the Han River on 28 June 1950?
My impression is that the city center is north of the Han river, so the North Koreans did not need to cross the river in order to take (the important parts of?) the city. Blowing up the Han river ...
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Looking for information on North Korean government/party/military organization late 1980s-early 2000s
You will find very accurate information about NK positions at WorldstatesMen website. However, I see the info there is quite basic, it may not include positions you're looking for.
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How didn't the North Koreans catch the pun "We paean the DPRK. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung"?
I wouldn't have gotten it either. Took me a while to get it after seeing the joke. Born in Romania, lived 20-ish years in Canada. Canadian citizen.
One reason is that the English pronounciation is not ...
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What is the basis for the argument that the true believers in Juche died in the N. Korean famine?
About the bicycle thing...
I don't know if they are allowed or not but I'm pretty sure they do.
Pics from fall 2014 (own work)
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Why didn't the Chinese attack Hungnam during the evacuation?
The retreat from Hungnam was an aftermath of the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. In that battle, the Chinese had lost 40%-50% of the 120,000 men they had committed to battle against 30,000 American ...
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How many people were fighting in the North Korean Army in peak strength in the Korean War?
Here's an excerpt from a PDF on The history of the North Korean Army :-
The overall actual strength for the People's Army at the time
was estimated at approximately 30,000. To this figure was ...
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Who created the Korean Unification Flag?
According to this wiki the man who originally coined the idea was Han yongun. during the 3.1 march: 한반도기 (Wikipedia).
But dismissed the idea and used the Korean flag instead.
It was discussed again ...
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