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North Hollywood shootout
The North Hollywood shootout (February 28, 1997): bank robbers Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, in body armor with automatic rifles, fought LAPD officers for 44 minutes near a Bank of America; both died, no officers or civilians killed.
North Hollywood, Los Angeles
North Hollywood is a San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles, formerly Toluca (1887) and Lankershim (1896), renamed 1927, annexed 1923, home to the NoHo Arts District and the B Line's northern terminus.
North India
North India: loosely defined northern region of India spanning the Himalayas, Indo-Gangetic Plains, and Thar Desert; core states Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan plus Delhi, Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh; boundaries vary by authority.
North Indian Ocean
The North Indian Ocean is the northern portion of the Indian Ocean, comprising the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, whose currents reverse seasonally with the monsoon winds.
North Island
North Island (Te Ika a Māui), the smaller but more populous of New Zealand's two main islands at 113,729 sq km, holding 75% of the population, with volcanic features including the Taupō caldera and active cones such as Ruapehu and Taranaki.
North Island Volcanic Plateau
North Island Volcanic Plateau: central New Zealand upland hosting the Taupō Volcanic Zone, a rifted arc from Whakaari/White Island to Ruapehu with rhyolitic calderas, 23 geothermal systems, and Lake Taupō.
North Jakarta
North Jakarta (Jakarta Utara), one of five administrative cities of DKI Jakarta, Indonesia: 146.66 km², 1.87 million people (2021), 6 districts, 31 kelurahan, home of Tanjung Priok port, Sunda Kelapa, and severe tidal flooding and land subsidence.
North Jeolla Province (전라북도)
North Jeolla Province (전라북도, Jeollabuk-do), now Jeonbuk Special Self-Governing Province (Jeonbuk State) since January 18, 2024, is a southwestern South Korean province with about 1.75 million people and 8,063 km².
North Jersey
North Jersey is the northern region of New Jersey, oriented toward New York City and commonly defined as Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Sussex, Union, and Warren counties, home to Newark, Jersey City, and Paterson, the first planned industrial city.
North Jetty
North Jetty is the shared name for the northern jetty at paired harbor-entrance jetties, notably Grays Harbor (1916), Humboldt Bay (1891-1925, dolos-armored), and the Mouth of the Columbia River; several are famous surf breaks.
North Kalimantan
North Kalimantan (Kalimantan Utara, Kaltara), Indonesian province created 2012 from East Kalimantan by Law 20/2012; capital Tanjung Selor; borders Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia; five regencies/city, population about 700,000, coal, aluminum, and pulp economy.
North Kalimantan Communist Party
The North Kalimantan Communist Party (NKCP), chaired by Wen Ming Chyuan, was a communist party in Sarawak whose guerrillas fought an insurgency until a peace agreement in 1990.
North Karanpura power station
North Karanpura Super Thermal Power Station is NTPC's 1,980 MW coal-fired station at Tandwa, Jharkhand, and its first to use air-cooled condensers, cutting water use by 60%.
North Karelia Biosphere Reserve
North Karelia Biosphere Reserve (Pohjois-Karjalan biosfäärialue), Finland's first UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve, established 1992 in easternmost Finland; 790,745 ha of taiga with Koli, Patvinsuo, and Petkeljärvi National Parks, administered by the North Karelia ELY Centre.
North Kazakhstan
North Kazakhstan region (Солтүстік Қазақстан облысы), one of Kazakhstan's fourteen regions, formed 1936, center Petropavlovsk; 98,000 sq km on the West Siberian Plain edge, Ishim River, borders Russia.
North Kent Island
North Kent Island is an uninhabited, ice-capped island in Nunavut, Canada, lying in Cardigan Strait between Devon and Ellesmere Islands, with a recurring polynya attracting walruses, seals, and narwhals.
North Kordofan (شمال كردفان)
North Kordofan (شمال كردفان) is a central Sudanese state with capital El Obeid, historically Sudan's leading gum arabic producer (about 30,000 tons annually until the early 1960s) and since April 2023 a major battleground of the SAF–RSF war.
North Korea (조선민주주의인민공화국)
North Korea (조선민주주의인민공화국), the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a dynastic totalitarian one-party state under Kim Jong Un, nuclear-armed since 2006, under UN sanctions, with documented crimes against humanity and chronic food insecurity.
North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
North Korea (DPRK) possesses nuclear weapons, an assessed large chemical weapons stockpile, and a suspected biological weapons capability, having conducted six nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017.
North Korea at the 2016 Summer Olympics
North Korea (DPRK) at Rio 2016: 31 athletes in nine sports, winning 2 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze medals, 34th in the table; golds by Ri Se-Gwang (vault) and Rim Jong-Sim (75 kg weightlifting).
North Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics
North Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics: DPRK sent 22 athletes to PyeongChang, its first Games in South Korea, fielding the first joint Korean Olympic team, a unified women's ice hockey squad (COR) that lost all five games.
North Korea at the Olympics
North Korea (DPR Korea, PRK) at the Olympics: first competed at Innsbruck 1964; boycotted 1984, 1988, and 2020; suspended 2021-2022; returned at Paris 2024 with 6 medals.
North Korea national football team (조선민주주의인민공화국 축구 국가대표팀)
North Korea national football team (조선민주주의인민공화국 축구 국가대표팀), nicknamed Chollima: DPRK's FIFA/AFC men's team, 1966 and 2010 World Cup quarterfinalist-upset over Italy, secretive broadcasts, relocated qualifiers.
North Korea–Russia border
The North Korea–Russia border is a 17–19 km stretch of the Tumen River between Rason and Khasan, with a rail bridge at Tumangang and a road bridge opened in 2026.
North Korea–Russia relations
North Korea–Russia relations: bilateral ties between Pyongyang and Moscow, formalized by the June 2024 Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty with a mutual military assistance clause, marked by North Korean arms transfers, about 11,000 troops sent to Russia, and Russian technology and economic support in return.
North Korea–South Korea relations
North Korea–South Korea relations (남북관계): political, military, economic, and humanitarian ties between the DPRK and ROK, divided in 1948, technically at war since the 1953 armistice, marked by summits, Kaesong cooperation, and North Korea's 2023 two-hostile-states policy.
North Korea–United States relations
North Korea–United States relations: the unresolved US-DPRK relationship since the 1953 armistice, with no diplomatic ties, nuclear negotiations from the 1994 Agreed Framework to the 2018-2019 Trump-Kim summits, sanctions, and North Korea's alignment with Russia.
North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens
North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens (北朝鮮による日本人拉致問題): kidnappings of Japanese nationals by DPRK agents, mainly 1977-1983. Japan recognizes 17 victims; five returned after Kim Jong-il's 2002 admission; 12 remain unreturned amid disputed DNA evidence.
North Korean airbases and airfields
North Korea's airbases and airfields serve the Korean People's Army Air Force, with roughly 70 air bases, hardened underground shelters, and dozens of emergency highway landing strips.
North Korean cult of personality
State-sponsored veneration of the Kim family (Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un) ruling North Korea since 1948: mandatory portraits, Juche calendar, Ten Principles, school indoctrination, and Kim Jong Un's cult expansion since 2024.