North Korea Morphology and Culture
MORPHOLOGY Structurally, North Korea is an appendage of the lands of archaeozoic origin that form the rear of Manchuria: in fact it consists of a Precambrian base largely covered by paleozoic rocks, which were subjected to intense corrugations and tectonic displacements, so as to fragment into a kind of Horst and depressions with a prevalent SW-NE direction, according to the general trend of the fracture lines that affected East Asia, from China to Japan. A prolonged erosive activity gave rise…