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NORTH KOREA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948
Synonyms:
D.P.R.K.; Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK; North Korea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "North Korea"):
capital of North Korea; Pyongyang (capital of North Korea and an industrial center)
Yalu; Yalu River (river in eastern Asia; rises in North Korea and flows southwest to Korea Bay (forming part of the border between North Korea and China))
Domain member region:
Yalu River (a battle in the Korean War (November 1950); when UN troops advanced north to the Yalu River 200,000 Chinese troops crossed the river and drove them back)
Holonyms ("North Korea" is a part of...):
Dae-Han-Min-Gook; Han-Gook; Korea; Korean Peninsula (an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook)
Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)
Derivation:
North Korean (of or relating to or characteristic of North Korea or its people or their culture)
