Korea
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Korea is a geographic area, civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia, which is currently divided into North Korea and South Korea. In spite of the modern-day split between North and South Korea, the Korean people share a common heritage.
Excavations have found pottery and stone tools from Neolithic-age settlements ca. 4000 B.C. and evidence that by 2000 B.C. a pottery culture had spread to the peninsula from China. Starting in about 1100 B.C., migration from China into the Korean Peninsula established the city of P’yongyang. By the fourth century B.C., a number of walled-town states had been noted in Korea by Chinese officials. The most illustrious site, known to historians as Old Choson, was located in what today is the southern part of northeastern China and northwestern Korea. Old Choson civilization was based on bronze culture and consisted of a political federation of walled towns.[1]
Korean: 한국 in South Korea or 조선 in North Korea.
South Korea
- Main article: South Korea
South Korea occupies the southern half of the Korean Peninsula on the northeastern corner of the Asian continent. North Korea lies to the north, and Japan is located to the southeast, across the Korea Strait. It occupies nearly 45 percent of the land area of the Korean Peninsula, or 98,190 square kilometers of land area and 290 square kilometers of water area.[2]
North Korea
- Main article: North Korea
North Korea is a communist state under the one-man leadership of Kim Jong Il, chairman of the National Defense Commission—the nation’s “highest administrative authority,” supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), and general secretary of the Korean Workers’ Party (KWP).[3]
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