ABSTRACT
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has two northern borders, the longer one (1,041 km) with China (Manchuria), and the other (16 km) with Russia. The Republic of Korea is to the south. North Korea has a land mass of 123,000 sq km, about the size of New York State and almost as large as England, with a population of 22 million. Its GNP per capita was estimated at US $1,273 in 1990 (one-fifth of that in the Republic of Korea), with an aggregate of about US $27 billion.1
