North Korea
by Deanna Meiburg
basic facts
Capital: Pyongyang
Head of State: Chairman Kim Jong Un
Head of Government: Communist State
Language: Korean
entertainment:
Choe Sung Hui
Kye Sun-Hui
Kim II Sung
geography:
Land
The land is mostly hills and mountains separated by deep, narrow valleys with wide coastal plains in the west and discontinuous in the east. The land is used for many different things. 21.8% of the land is used for agriculture. Arable land takes up 19.5% of the land. Permanent crops takes up 1.9% and permanent pasture takes up 0.4%. Forest takes up 46%, almost half of the land.
climate
North Korea has many dangerous natural disasters which can be deadly. For example in 2012 North Korea suffered from mid-July to mid-September, which had 223 people killed, 450 were missing, 144 injured and over 234,000 were homeless. North Korea also has a lot of typhoons.
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