ams from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey)
(1997)

Televisions: 210,000 (1997)

Internet country code: .kg

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): NA

Internet users: 51,600 (2001)

Transportation Kyrgyzstan

Railways: total: 370 km in common carrier service; does not include
industrial lines broad gauge: 370 km 1.520-m gauge (1990)

Highways: total: 30,300 km (including 140 km of expressways) paved:
22,600 km (includes some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads) unpaved:
7,700 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult
to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)

Waterways: 600 km (1990)

Pipelines: natural gas 200 km

Ports and harbors: Balykchy (Ysyk-Kol or Rybach'ye)

Airports: 50 (2001)

Airports - with paved runways: total: 4 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m:
1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2001)

Airports - with unpaved runways: 5 914 to 1,523 m: Military Kyrgyzstan

Military branches: Army, Air and Air Defense, Security Forces, Border
Troops

Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age (2002 est.)

Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 1,234,457 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 1,001,274
(2002 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 50,590
(2002 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $19.2 million (FY01)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.4% (FY01)

Transnational Issues Kyrgyzstan

Disputes - international: territorial dispute with Tajikistan on
southwestern boundary in Isfara Valley area; dispute over access to
Sokh and other Uzbek enclaves in Kyrgyzstan mars progress on boundary
delimitation; disputes over provision of water and hydroelectric power
to Kazakhstan; periodic target of Islamic insurgents from Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan, and Afghanistan

Illicit drugs: limited illicit cultivator of cannabis and opium poppy,
mostly for CIS consumption; limited government eradication program;
increasingly used as transshipment point for illicit drugs to Russia
and Western Europe from Southwest Asia

This page was last updated on 1 January 2002

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Korea, North

Introduction

Korea, North

Background: Following World War II, Korea was split with the northern
half coming under Communist domination and the southern portion becoming
Western oriented. KIM Chong-i