North Korea

North Korea is a country situated in East Asia, it shares its borders with South Korea and has access to the East Sea and the Yellow Sea. North Korea is a Countryhumans character that is not as famous as South Korea.

Appearance
They wear mostly military uniforms, but sometimes wear a dark blue hoodie like.

Male
The male version is the more popular one, he usually wears a white eyepatch with a red star. He often wears a blue shirt or a military uniform, he is usually depicted carrying a nuke.

Female
North Korea is rarely depicted as a female character in the Countryhumans fandom, generally being described and drawn as a male. They are seen to be wearing a military outfit (which usually same as the male version) and sometimes with their national flower.

Personality
North Korea's character is generally dark and cold-hearted. They have a higher affection for nuclear or missile than other countries. Sometimes, North Korea holds them in his arms or even sleeps with them. North Korea is often portrayed as quick-tempered, crazed, and uninterested in whatever everyone else does, only focusing on themselves and distancing themselves from others. North Korea is generally not fond of their neighbors (especially South Korea and Japan). They are obsessed with nukes and creating controversy, especially between themselves and the USA. North Korea can be envious of the wealthy countries surrounding themselves, especially under the hardship of famine. Despite their shortcomings, North Korea tries to keep cool and remains loyal to themselves and their leaders. Some artists think that North Korea has a “soft spot” most likely because of the civilians, that are kind and just want to escape. North Korea can sometimes feel extremely isolated, alone, or overwhelmed, but is able to covert their feelings from other countries.

Interests

 * Nuclear Technology (Nukes)
 * Pyongyang cold noodles
 * Moranbong Band
 * Bombs
 * Surveillance
 * Food
 * Chocopie

Flag meaning
The star symbolizes revolutionary traditions

Red is a symbol of revolutionary patriotism and a spirit of struggle

White - symbolizes purity of ideals and is a traditional color for this country

Blue symbolizes the desire to unite all the revolutionary forces of the world in the struggle for independence, friendship and peace

Other symbols

 * Goshawk
 * Magnolia flower

Nicknames

 * N.K.
 * DPRK
 * Korea (Shared with their sibling, South Korea)

Organizations and Affiliations

 * UN

Beginnings
Around A.D. 668, several competing kingdoms were unified into a single dominion on the Korean Peninsula. Successive regimes maintained Korean political and cultural independence for more than a thousand years; the last of these ruling kingdoms would be the Choson Dynasty (1392-1910).

After surviving invasions by Japan at the end of the 16th century and the Manchus of East Asia in the early 17th, Korea chose to limit its contact with the outside world. A 250-year-long period of peace followed, with few Koreans traveling outside their isolated country.

This began to change in the late 19th century, when Western powers like Britain, France and the United States made efforts to open trade and diplomatic relations with Korea, with little success.

Colonial period
At the outset of the 20th century, Japan and Russia vied for control over the Korean Peninsula. Japan emerged the victor, occupying the peninsula in 1910, at the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War and formally annexing it five years later.

In the First Sino-Japan War, the fight was fought in Korea. This was one of the first signs Japanese Empire were trying to colonize Korea. The Qing Dynasty started the war with Japan because Japan had sunken their ships that were supposed to reach Korea. Inside the ships were military tools and soldiers that were supposed to help Korea incase Japan may invade. This was a fail, and Japan won the Sino-Japan War, and took parts of China.

Korean Liberation Movements
Around 1919, the March 1st Movement took place. After the movement, few Koreans escaped to Hong Kong, China and created the Korean Provisional Government. In 1940, the Korean Liberation Army (KLA) was formed. The KLA was the armed force of the Korean Provisional Government. The Chinese government were also supporting them.

The KLA participated in the Pacific War and other battles alongside China and the Allies against Japan around Southeast Asia. The Provisional Government sent troops to fight alongside the British in the Southeast Asian theatre of WW2 by the request of the British Army. There were about 1000 members by the end of WW2. China and KLA’s biggest goal was to gain independence or to stop Japanese Empire from getting more land. The KLA camps were scattered around China, but mainly in Shanghai, because the Provisional Government was established.

The Korean Army isn’t widely known because it often mixed with the Chinese armies on the battlefield. Overall, China did help the Provisional Government and Army to help fight against Japanese Empire from getting more land in Asia. This is not entirely confirmed but the KLA was planning to free Korea yet America came and stopped Japanese Empire. However if America didn’t “occupy” them in time South Korea would most likely be a communist country.

Colonial Period
Over 35 years of colonial rule, Korea became an industrialized country, but its people suffered brutal repression at the hands of the Japanese, who tried to wipe out its distinctive language and cultural identity and make Koreans culturally Japanese. There were many protests of Korea’s independence however many of the civilians that protested were arrested and many of them were massacred. However these protests inspired many countries.

During World War II, many Korean men were compelled to serve in Japan’s army or work in wartime factories. Many soldiers that were able to survive could have been a big part of the Japanese soldiers, but many died on their first battle due to them being the first on the battlefield. Thousands of Korean women were forced into providing sexual services for Japanese soldiers, becoming known as “comfort women.” It is unclear but comfort women were most likely taken away in the countryside, uncommonly in the city, as the education was higher there. Girls that were taken away in the countryside most likely wanted to go to schools, or get a job, but got tricked. Girls and boys that lived in cities with good education would probably been looked forward by Japanese, if they behaved well.

Korea divided
After the 2 atomic bombs were dropped in Japan, Japan's territory retreated back to their lands, leaving Korea altogether. USSR took North Korea making them part of their communist, on the other hand, America had supported South Korea. The Republic of Korea (ROK) broke up after America took South Korea. Most of the ROK members supported communism so the Americans executed some of them.

The Korean War occurred and when nearly all of the Korean peninsula was occupied by North Korean forces, America and the UN came to the rescue fighting back at the communists. The fight was brutal until the border was made right in the middle of Korea.

In the north, the Soviets installed Kim Il Sung as the first premier of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), better known as North Korea, with its capital at Pyongyang.

North Korea famine
North Korea was reorganized into a dictatorship led by Kim Il-sung. This made North Korea's economic growth lagging behind South Korea. In the 1990s, North Korea's economic situation continued to deteriorate, and to make matters worse, the collapse of the communist bloc and natural disasters caused the worst food shortage. Many people (About 333,000 to 600,000) died of starvation due to this food shortage. After this famine, the number of North Korean defectors increased, and a market called Jangmadang was created.

North Korea today
North Korea's economy is in a slump due to the Kim dynasty's dictatorship and the extreme inequality between the rich and the poor. And the North Korean government has continued to provoke his sibling with nuclear weapons and missiles. Also North Korea has been thoroughly monitoring and brainwashing its people since its founding, but in the 2010s, South Korean culture became widespread in North Korea. This has led to increased surveillance of its citizens in North Korea.

Family

 * Korean Empire - parent
 * South Korea - sibling

Friends

 * USSR
 * China
 * Russia
 *  Indonesia
 *  Pakistan
 *  Iran
 *  Canada
 *  Switzerland
 *  Laos
 *  Turkmenistan
 *  Syria
 *  Palestine

Neutral

 * Vietnam
 * Japan
 *  Türkiye
 *  Singapore
 *  Bolivia

Enemies

 * America
 * South Korea
 * India
 * France
 * Malaysia (after the assassination of Kim Jong Nam by NK agents at the Kuala Lumpur International airport in 2017)

Trivia
They are often headcanonned as always being in a conflict with their sibling, South Korea.

Extra(s)

 * North Korea will only get a special meal when the Day of the Sun comes around (on April 15). This is the only day where North Korea really appreciates them selves.
 * North Korea bases its calendar on Kim Il-Sung’s date of birth: 15 April 1912. So it’s year 105, not 2017.
 * The founder and first leader of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, created the country’s policy of “Juche” or “self-reliance,” which cut off North Korea economically and diplomatically from the rest of the world, even in times of great need, such as famines.
 * Virtually nobody uses the internet in North Korea.
 * There could be trillions of dollars worth of minerals underground in North Korea.
 * North Korea appreciates Indonesia's flowers that were sent to him.
 * North Korean hackers have stolen $US670 million of foreign and virtual currency.
 * The Philippines was North Korea's 3rd largest trading partner just after India and China until it got rejected because of the anti-communist policy in the Philippines. Ironically many North Koreans have migrated to the Philippines around the early * 15th century and is still continuing to this day.
 * It costs $US12,000 to defect from North Korea.
 * North Koreans are convinced that Korea is a single country.
 * North Korea is not communist. It is commonly believed that North Korea follows the doctrine of Marxism-Leninism. In fact, it gave up the communist ideology in the '50s when the personality cult was officially debunked in the USSR. That is when the Juche idea blossomed. According to North Korean historians, this idea arose as early as 1926 as a continuation of Marx’s and Lenin’s teachings. Over time, all mention of communism started to be wiped out from the North Korean constitution. In its last edition, adopted in 2009, it disappeared altogether.
 * North Korea is one of the world’s leading exporters of seafood.