North Korea Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War

North Korea Has A List Of Allowed Haircuts and Has Banned Blue Jeans. North Korea is known as a "hermit kingdom" because of how it chooses to isolate itself from the rest of the world. Since 1953, Kim Il-Sung and his descendants have ruled North Korea. The fighting ended on 27 July 1953 when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. The agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone to separate North and South Korea, and allowed the return of prisoners.

More than 33,800 North Koreans have made their way to the South in search of freedom from poverty and oppression since Seoul began keeping track of their entry in 1998. Countless others have fled to China, Russia and elsewhere.