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NORTH KOREA

Pronunciation (US):

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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)

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