KIRIBATI (Continued)
Exports: $21.2 million (1978); 88% phosphate, 11.6% copra
Imports: $18.4 million (1978); foodstuffs, fuel, transportation equipment
Aid: Western (non-US) commitments (ODA; 1979), $46.0 million; Australia (1980-83), $8.1 million committed
Budget: $15.2 million (1979)
Monetary conversion rate: 0.90 Australian$=US$1
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: none
Highways: 483 km of motorable roads
Inland waterways: small network of canals, totaling 5 km, in Northern Line Islands
Ports: 3 minor
Civil air: 2 Trislanders, however, no major transport aircraft
Telecommunications: 1 AM broadcast station; 866 telephones (4.3 per 100 popl.)
KOREA, NORTH
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LAND
121,730 km2; 17% arable and cultivated, 74% in forest, scrub, and brush; remainder wasteland and urban
Land boundaries: 1,675 km
WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 12 nm (economic, including fishing, 200 nm; military 50 nm)
Coastline: 2,495 km
PEOPLE
Population: 20,586,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 3.2%
Nationality: noun—Korean(s); adjective—Korean
Ethnic divisions: racially homogeneous
Religion: Buddhism and Confucianism; religious activities now almost nonexistent
Language: Korean
Literacy: 90% (est.)
Labor force: 6.1 million; 48% agriculture, 52% non-agricultural; shortage of skilled and unskilled labor
GOVERNMENT
Official name: Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Type: Communist state; one-man rule
Capital: P'yongyang
Political subdivisions: nine provinces, three special cities (Pyongyang, Kaesong, and Chongjin)
Legal system: based on German civil law system with Japanese influences and Communist legal theory; constitution adopted 1948 and revised 1972; no judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
National holiday: 9 September
Branches: Supreme Peoples Assembly theoretically supervises legislative and judicial function; State Administration Council (cabinet) oversees ministerial operations
