North Korea is located on the Korean Peninsula in Eastern Asia, bordering South Korea, China, and Russia. The country split into North and South Korea after World War II, and tensions escalated when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, starting the Korean War. North Korea is now a communist state led by Kim Jong-un as dictator, with a struggling economy that relies on agriculture and has faced frequent floods and food shortages. The government maintains strict control over movement and religion within the closed country.

1. North Korea

2. Location
• Relative Location: Eastern Asia on the coast of
the Sea of Japan, it is located on a peninsula.
• Absolute Location: 39.2 N 125.45 E

3. North Korea Physical Features/map

4. Background Infor
• Japan invaded North Korea in 1905
• Korea split into North & South Korea in 1945
• On June 25th 1950, North Korea sent 75,000
soldiers across the 38th Parallel attacking the
South.

5. TimeLine
1944 1948 1960's19531950
Japanese
occupation
of Korea
ends
Soviet
troops
withdraw
South
declares
independence
, sparking
North Korean
invasion
Armistice
ends
Korean
War,
Rapid
industrial
growth.

6. 1980 1991 200320011994
Kim Jong-il,
moved up
party and
political
ladder.
North and
South Korea
join the
United
Nations
Death of Kim
Il-sung. Kim
Jong-il
succeeds him
as leader
North Korea
agrees to
freeze nuclear
program
Worst
drought in
history
North Korea
withdraws
from the
Nuclear Non-
Proliferation
Treaty (NPT)

7. North Korean Leaders
• North Korea is a
communist state
led by a Dictator.
That Dictator is
now Kim Jong-un

8. Human Environment Interaction
• North Korea's
agricultural economy
is 35% while its
industry and services
are 65% of its
economy

9. Floods and Food shortages

10. Religion
• Buddhist, Hindu or a Confucius

11. Movement
• The government has total
control and they decide
where people are, and how
everything works and
flows.

12. The government provide the illusion of religion.

13. • Closed economy

14. Continuity Through Change Of
North Korea
• In 1994 : The ‘Arduous March’
• Kim Jong il died in December 2011
• Economy was in meltdown
• Kim Jong Un has become the head of a new collective leadership
that appears firmly in control

15. Biography Kim Jong-il
• Kim Jong-il was the powerful leader
of North Korea from 1994 to 2011
• By that time North Korea had
become one of the most isolated
countries in the world, with frequent
famines and an economy in a
shambles
• Kim's attempts to acquire nuclear
weapons for North Korea
• He reportedly suffered a stroke in
2008, and died three years later