Tell some facts about North Korea ?

Deep sea fishing by North Korea did not develop until the 1970s. It has grown substantially in the Sea of Japan, where the main catch is pollack, a Korean favourite.

Despite the managed nature of the North Korean economy, an estimated five million of its citizens are participating in private enterprise. About a fifth of the population, the vast majority of these businesses are run by women.

North Korea is ruled by an organization called the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland. All political candidates for any position in the country must be a member of the Front.

North Koreans believe that all Americans have big noses, huge eyes, and hairy chests. According to defectors’ accounts, they are taught to kill American soldiers in their school PE classes. For this, they use cardboard mannequins made to look like people in military uniforms, with giant noses and wide-open blue eyes.

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.

North Korea is one of the few countries in the world whose residents do not pay any taxes. Taxation was abolished in 1974 as part of the "old world." Only organizations and individuals who are making money outside the country are not released from it. However, everything might change soon: it is rumored that the government is planning to reintroduce income tax in the near future.

Yes, you read it right: they just love Hollywood films in North Korea. Titanic and Die Hard, for example. However, Koreans often don’t know exactly where the film was shot. After all, it’s not only Americans that have big noses. Incidentally, watching South Korean TV is much more dangerous because one cannot plead ignorance of where a film or show come from in this case.

North Korea’s main trading partner is its neighbor China, and that accounts for about 60% of the country’s exports. One of the main export items is fish and other seafood, making up a quarter of all goods sold abroad. In addition, North Korea is among the top 20 countries exporting fishery products.

North Korea is the only state in the world that has a unique form of rule: necrocracy. The reason is that Kim Il-sung was posthumously declared the Eternal Leader of the DPRK. In practice, it means that the incumbent leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, bears the titles of the Supreme Leader of the DPRK, Supreme Commander of the Army, and Chairman of the Workers’ Party, but he does not hold the presidential status. And in all honesty, he doesn’t really need it.

The Arirang Festival is the largest mass performance and is included in the Guinness World Records Book. About 100,000 people take part every year, the country’s whole population being around 25 million. Moreover, the show is held in the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium — the largest stadium in the world with a total capacity of 114,000.

At the border with South Korea lies the village of Kijong-dong, built in order to show the southern neighbors all the privilege of living in the North. It was constructed in the 1950s when electricity was a luxury in rural areas on both sides of the border.

In North Korea, it is officially forbidden to give children the name borne by their Leader. If a child had been named like this before his accession, the parents must urgently change the name. This is not the first taboo of this kind in the DPRK: in 2011, Kim Jong-un’s father, Kim Jong-il, issued an equivalent decree about his own name. However, the first to make this step was their respective grandfather and father, Kim Il-sung, and all the earlier prohibitions are still in effect.