Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2000)

Internet users:
NA

Transportation Korea, North

Railways:
total: 5,214 km
standard gauge: 5,214 km 1.435-m gauge (3,500 km electrified) (2004)

Highways:
total: 31,200 km
paved: 1,997 km
unpaved: 29,203 km (1999 est.)

Waterways:
2,250 km
note: most navigable only by small craft (2004)

Pipelines:
oil 154 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Ch'ongjin, Haeju, Hungnam (Hamhung), Kimch'aek, Kosong, Najin,
Namp'o, Sinuiju, Songnim, Sonbong (formerly Unggi), Ungsang, Wonsan

Merchant marine:
total: 238 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 985,108 GRT/1,389,389 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 13, cargo 191, container 2, livestock carrier
4, passenger/cargo 5, petroleum tanker 13, refrigerated cargo 5,
roll on/roll off 5
foreign-owned: 52 (China 1, Denmark 2, France 1, Greece 4, Italy 1,
Lebanon 4, Lithuania 1, Netherlands 1, Pakistan 2, Romania 10,
Russia 2, Singapore 2, South Korea 2, Syria 9, Turkey 6, Ukraine 1,
UAE 3) (2005)

Airports:
78 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 35
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 23
1,524 to 2,437 m: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 3 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 43
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 20
914 to 1,523 m: 14
under 914 m: 8 (2004 est.)

Heliports:
19 (2004 est.)

Military Korea, North

Military branches:
North Korean People's Army: Ground Force, Navy, Air Force; Civil
Security Forces (2005)

Military service age and obligation:
17 years of age (2004)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 17-49: 5,851,801 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 17-49: 4,810,831 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 194,605 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$5,217.4 million (FY02)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
NA

Transnational Issues Korea, North

Disputes - international:
China seeks to stem illegal migration of tens of thousands of North
Koreans escaping famine, economic privation, and political
oppression; North Korea and China dispute the sovereignty of certain
islands in Yalu and Tumen rivers and a section of boundary around
Paektu-san (mountain) is indefinite; Military Demarcation Line
within the 4-km wide Demilitarized Zone has separated North from
South Korea since 1953; periodic