DPRK

English

Alternative forms

• D.P.R.K. (rare)

Proper noun

DPRK

1. Initialism of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
   • 1984 December 26 [1984 September 20], Chen Lei, “Further Emancipate the Mind and Penetratingly Carry Out Reform and Open-Door Policy”, in China Report: Economic Affairs‎^[1], number 84-107, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 18:

     In addition, on the basis of making full use of Dalian and Qinhuangdao ports for exports, we should fully use Qingjin and Luojin ports in the DPRK to expand our province's export commodity capacity.

   • 2014, David Eimer, The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China‎^[2], Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 254:

     There are plenty of soldiers in the surrounding Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, the official Chinese name for the region, mounting guard along the nearby border with the DPRK. […] Yanbian, Yanji apart, is one of the least densely populated regions of China outside the high plateau of Tibet and the deserts of Xinjiang.

Translations

Democratic People's Republic of Korea — see also North Korea,‎ Democratic People's Republic of Korea

• Armenian: ԿԺԴՀ (hy) (KŽDH)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: not used in Mandarin

• Estonian: Korea RDV, KRDV (rare)
• Finnish: KDKT (rare)
• French: RPDC (fr)
• Indonesian: RRDK
• Japanese: not used in Japanese
• Korean: not used in Korean
• Polish: KRLD (pl) f
• Russian: КНДР (ru) f (KNDR)
• Spanish: RPDC f
• Ukrainian: КНДР f (KNDR)