Editing North Korea (section)

== Etymology ==
{{See also|Names of Korea}}
[[File:History of Korea-476.PNG|thumb|upright=0.7|left|The name ''Korea'' is derived from [[Goguryeo]], also known as ''Koryŏ'', one of the [[Three Kingdoms of Korea]].]]

The modern spelling of Korea first appeared in 1671 in the travel writings of the [[Dutch East India Company]]'s sailor [[Hendrick Hamel]].<ref name="UDN">{{cite web |date=5 July 2008 |title= |script-title=zh:Korea原名Corea 美國改的名 |url=http://city.udn.com/54543/2933925 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006101951/http://city.udn.com/54543/2933925 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |access-date=28 March 2014 |publisher=[[United Daily News]] |language=zh}}</ref>

After the division of the country into North and South Korea, the two sides used different terms to refer to Korea: ''Chosun'' or ''Joseon'' ({{lang|ko|조선}}) in North Korea, and ''Hanguk'' ({{lang|ko|한국}}) in South Korea. In 1948, North Korea adopted ''Democratic People's Republic of Korea'' ({{Langx|ko|조선민주주의인민공화국}}, ''Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk''; {{Audio|조선민주주의인민공화국 발음.ogg|listen|help=no}}) as its official name. In the wider world, because its government controls the northern part of the [[Korean Peninsula]], it is commonly called ''North Korea'' to distinguish it from South Korea, which is officially called the ''Republic of Korea'' in English. Both governments consider themselves to be the legitimate government of the whole of [[Korea]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Buzo |first=Adrian |title=The Making of Modern Korea |url=https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo |url-access=limited |publisher=Routledge |location=London |year=2002 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n82 72] |isbn=978-0-415-23749-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Cumings |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Cumings |title=Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |location=New York |year=2005 |pages=505–506 |isbn=978-0-393-32702-1}}</ref> For this reason, the people do not consider themselves as 'North Koreans' but as Koreans in the same divided country as their compatriots in the South, and foreign visitors are discouraged from using the former term.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nknews.org/2014/02/why-is-north-korea-called-the-dprk/|title=Why is North Korea called the DPRK?|last=Young|first=Benjamin R|date=7 February 2014|work=[[NK News]]|access-date=9 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209140607/http://www.nknews.org/2014/02/why-is-north-korea-called-the-dprk/|archive-date=9 February 2014}}</ref>