North Korean

North Korean noun: a citizen or resident of North Korea.

Noun

North Korean (plural North Koreans)

A citizen or resident of North Korea.
- Average North Koreans had little time for the news except maybe those enjoying cushy jobs in Pyeongyang.2006, Richard Saccone, “Becoming Familiar with My New Home”, in Living with the Enemy: Inside North Korea, Hollym, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42

North Korean (not comparable)

Of, from, or pertaining to North Korea, the North Korean people or the North Korean language.
- Throughout October the campaign in Korea made excellent progress. Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, was taken on October 19, and day after day MacArthur's forces were on the march.1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 24, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 371
- In the 1960s the Chinese government decided to standardize the Korean-language education for Korean Chinese and adopted the Joseoneo dialect used in North Korea instead of Hangugeo used in South Korea. As a result, Joseonjok in South Korea speak North Korean–accented Korean, which is easily...2013, Melody Chia-Wen Lu, Shin Hyunjoon, “Ethnicizing, Capitalizing, and Nationalizing: South Korea and the Returning Korean Chinese”, in Xiang Biao, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Mika Toyota, editors, Return...

North Korean

(rare) The version of Korean spoken in North Korea.
- When you came back you sat in the dark and when someone asked you to speak North Korean, or Chinese, you would do it in your head while saying, "I forgot all that over there."1995, Center for the Study of the Korean War, The Hermit Kingdom: Poems of the Korean War, Dubuque, Ia.: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 38
- As the Orientals gradually worked into combat it became necessary to have a separate controller to speak North Korean and Chinese.a. 2011, Walker M[elville] Mahurin, Honest John, Pickle Partners Publishing, published 2016, →ISBN

উত্তর কোরীয়

As a result, Joseonjok in South Korea speak North Korean–accented Korean, which is easily recognizable in South Korea.2013, Melody Chia-Wen Lu, Shin Hyunjoon, “Ethnicizing, Capitalizing, and Nationalizing: South Korea and the Returning Korean Chinese”, in...
“He was clearly upset, but what was even more interesting was that he didn’t look North Korean, he looked American.” / American?2021, Laura Scott, Target for Revenge, →ISBN:
She described how a colleague of her father had heard him speak “North Korean” (pukhan-mal), and promptly reported him to the authorities because they thought he was an illegal immigrant.2023, Jennifer Hough, “The racialization of North Koreans in South Korea: diasporic co-ethnics in the South Korean ethnolinguistic nation”...

plural	North Koreans

From North Korea + -an.

What does North Korean mean?: North Korean means a citizen or resident of North Korea.
What is North Korean in Hindi?: North Korean in Hindi is उत्तर कोरियाई (uttar koriyāī). See North Korean meaning in Hindi.
How do you use North Korean in a sentence?: As a result, Joseonjok in South Korea speak North Korean–accented Korean, which is easily recognizable in South Korea.
What part of speech is North Korean?: North Korean can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
What is the plural of North Korean?: The plural of North Korean is North Koreans.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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