DPRK

alternative rare D.P.R.K.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, official name of North Korea: a country in East Asia.

   In addition, on the basis of making full use of Dalian and Qinhuangdao ports for exports, we should fully use Qingjin and Luojin ports in the DPRK to expand our province's export commodity capacity.

   1984 December 26 [1984 September 20], Chen Lei, “Further Emancipate the Mind and Penetratingly Carry Out Reform and Open-Door Policy”, in China Report: Economic Affairs, number 84-107, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 18

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   There are plenty of soldiers in the surrounding Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, the official Chinese name for the region, mounting guard along the nearby border with the DPRK. […] Yanbian, Yanji apart, is one of the least densely populated regions of China outside the high plateau of Tibet and the deserts of Xinjiang.

   2014, David Eimer, The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China, Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 254

   The DPRK government maintains different systems of labor camps – the kwan-li-so, or political prison camps, and the kwo-hwa-so, or reeducation labor camps – among other types of detention facilities.

   2019 March 28, “Prisons of North Korea”, in United States Department of State, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2023, page 1

   Analysis of the existing literature and expert interviews revealed that the DPRK's future nuclear threat towards the PRC is under examined and frequently dismissed. However, given that the DPRK's missiles are omnidirectional, and with Kim's heavily xenophobic tendencies, including his fear that Beijing would prefer a pro-Chinese leader of the DPRK, Beijing might not be excluded from the list of Kim's future nuclear targets.

   2022 November 8, Thinking About the Unthinkable, “Thinking About the Unthinkable”, in Rand Corporation