Democratic People's Republic of KoreaDemocratic People's Republic of Korea, yet we all call it North Korea. North Korea was part of a larger country known as Korea until the Korean War, which was basically a civil war. The Korean War, which occurred from 1950 to 1953, was a 3-year military conflict between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the People's Republic of China. The war began on June 25, 1950, and a formal agreement was signed between the warring parties on July 27, 1953 to stop the fighting. War is the reason we have North Korea and South Korea. North Korea continues to send threats to South Korea via fax and Japan does not officially recognize North Korea. North Korea recently has the largest deposit of rare earth elements worth about $6 trillion, and North Korea may be facing its worst epidemic of methamphetamine users. North Korea has a political prison known as Hoeryong Concentration Camp, also known as Camp 22. Camp 22 is approximately 225 km2 and is equipped with maximum security, electric fencing, nothing in, nothing out, and prisoners et...