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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW RESOURCE

• Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law) in English
• DPRK's Socialist Constitution (People's Democratic Republic of Korea)
• International Constitutional Law: North Korea Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers background information

EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT BRANCH

• Chairman of the National Defense Commission; President of the Supreme People's Assembly Presidium; Premier; DPRK Cabinet

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: Central Court

LEGISLATIVE

• PARLIAMENT: Ch'oego Inmin Hoeui (Supreme People's Assembly)
• LAWS: DPRK Constitution and Laws (People's Korea)
• NATLEX: Korea, Democratic People's Republic (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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LEGAL GUIDES AND REGIONAL SPECIFIC LAWS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: North Korea (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• FindLaw: Korea (North)
• JURIST: North Korea (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• Korean Legal Research at the University of Washington (University of Washington School of Law, Gallagher Law Library)
• State Party Report - Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Human Rights Internet) - Contains text of United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child CRC/C/3/Add.41 of 17 June 1996
• World Law Index: North Korea (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Asia: North Korea (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERALIZED SOURCE MATERIAL

• Country Study: North Korea () June 1993
• Portals to the World: North Korea ()
• Background Notes: North Korea (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Korea, North - NDE (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Democratic People's Republic of (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Korea, North (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Governments on the WWW: North Korea (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: North Korea (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: Grand People's Study House DPRK - information (IFLA)
• NEWS: BBC World Service Asia-Pacific and Korean Central News Agency
• World Factbook: North Korea (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: DPR Korea (World Food Programme)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: North Korea (Google); North Korea (Yahoo); WWW-VL Asian Studies: North Korea (Duke University)