Web Links - Chapter 25
Globalisation and Cultural Integration
Website Description
The International forum on Globalization's official website provides information on globalisation. Links to related websites and articles involving the issues that surround globalisation.
The BBC description of Globalisation, along with related links.
The website of the World Trade Organization. It provides news articles on trade, articles on the WTOs actions and access to the WTOs research papers, along with links to other relevant websites.
This website examines Human Rights for Workers. The description they give for their website is as follows - "Human Rights for Workers focuses on how globalization affects working men and women and on how it creates the need to incorporate the human rights of workers into global rules at the national, regional, and international levels through governmental, quasi-governmental, private business, labor union, and other non-governmental channels."
Website for an organisation aiming for the immediate suspension of the policies and practices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group, whom the organisation say have caused widespread poverty, inequality and suffering.
For the North Korean section:
Springboard page to 3 image galleries of North Korea, the most anti-globalised society in the world, comprising hundreds of images taken by the author of Planet Geography.
News in English, updated daily, from a North Korean perspective.
A page of discussions and exchanges of information about North Korea.
The Pyongyang Times, official news service of the DPRK regime (often a slow connection speed).
Official webpage of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Korean Friendship Association.
Korea-is-One website; a North Korean perspective and information.
Lots more links to the North Korean economy, philosophy, politics, video clips, etc.
Naenara - a home page for information on the DPRK from a DPRK perspective.
Uriminzokkiri - information about the DPRK from a DPRK perspective.
