Is North Korea a country?
In the USA we call our provinces states, because they were states before they joined together under a federal government. But a state is actually a country with a government. A country is a place, whether it has a government or not. We call our federal government the United States because the various states united and created the federal government to work together. So you have to keep the definitions of the words straight, to understand what they mean: A country is a place. A nation is the people of a place. A state is a place with a government. Therefore, Korea is a country and North Korea is a state, even though there is no government of Korea, but only separate governments of North and South Korea. The nation of Korea consists of all the people of North and South Korea, including those who live there and those who have immigrated to other countries. Those who have immigrated to other countries are called the Korean diaspora. Every nation has a disapora, consisting of those members
