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title: "Surprising facts about North Korea"  
description: "A brief explanation of the North Korea and it's surprising facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-09-28  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2696/surprising-facts-about-north-korea  
category: "country"  
tags: ["North Korea", "country", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Surprising facts about North Korea

![Surprising facts about North Korea](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6bfbdf29-2fca-432a-9273-c9047ad98694/images/23eb903e-1bfb-426a-8069-54828448e57f.jpeg) ![Surprising facts about North Korea](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6bfbdf29-2fca-432a-9273-c9047ad98694/images/db44dfec-0a0c-4500-9f08-42e652894fad.jpeg) The Kims rule a totalitarian government. Kim Jong Un, the third generation of the Kim family, is North Korea's current supreme leader. ![Surprising facts about North Korea](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6bfbdf29-2fca-432a-9273-c9047ad98694/images/1f908a09-48aa-4f33-b65d-07409eda9a95.jpeg) It has a national holiday known as 'the Day of the Shining Star' on April 15th to celebrate Kim Il-sung's birthday. ![Surprising facts about North Korea](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6bfbdf29-2fca-432a-9273-c9047ad98694/images/2ce5582f-a3ea-42d9-813e-cfe085b35d07.jpeg) North Korea has its independent time zone. Pyongyang Time is 30 minutes ahead of South Korean Standard Time. ![Surprising facts about North Korea](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6bfbdf29-2fca-432a-9273-c9047ad98694/images/60735ef7-04ed-4ec4-afbd-c766f301587f.jpeg) Juche, Confucianism, and Chondoism are the three official religions of North Korea. ![Surprising facts about North Korea](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6bfbdf29-2fca-432a-9273-c9047ad98694/images/044ba658-b4fa-45dd-8438-65841d73a4d2.jpeg) North Korea requires men to serve in the military for ten years and women for seven.

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