According to Juha Janhunen, the ancestral languages of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese were spoken in a relatively small area comprising present-day North Korea, Southern Manchuria, and Southeastern Mongolia ( Johanson and Robbeets 2010: 2 ).

According to statistics collected in 2009, there are 35, 684 song rooms in Korea with an average of 1. 9 million people participating each day.

According to one Korean American scholar who visited North Korea in the early 1980s, the country has no birth control policies ; parents are encouraged to have as many as six children.

According to a US Department of State report on human rights practices, the government of North Korea often punishes the family of a criminal along with the perpetrator.

According to the Constitution of North Korea ( 조선민주주의인민공화국 사회주의 헌법 ) Article 100, " the National Defence Commission is the highest military leadership body of State power.

" According to Article 102, " the Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea commands and directs all the armed forces and guides national defence as a whole.

According to the constitution, North Korea is a Democratic Republic and the Supreme People's Assembly and provincial People's Assemblies are elected by direct universal suffrage and secret ballot.

According to archaeologists, sufficient archaeological correlates of state-level societies coalesced in the 4th century to show the existence in Korea of the Three Kingdoms ( AD 300 / 400 – 668 ) of Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla.

According to an 11th-century Korean chronicle the Samguk Yusa, the wife of King Suro of the ancient Korean kingdom of Geumgwan Gaya was a princess who travelled by boat from a faraway land called Ayuta to Korea in 48 CE.

According to these legends, he founded a state known as Gija Joseon in Northwest Korea during the Gojoseon period of ancient Korean history.

According to the mythic history in the Samguk Yusa, the Gojoseon ( Old Joseon ) was founded in northern Korea and Manchuria in 2333 BCE.

According to legend, the kingdom Silla began with the unification of six chiefdoms of the Jinhan confederacy by Bak Hyeokgeose in 57 BC, in the southeastern area of Korea.

According to an investigation by the South Korean government, 75, 311 cultural assets were taken from Korea.

According to the Dongponews, an online media that connects migrants and immigrants of Korea, the number of foreigners residing in Korea have reached 1. 43 million by 2012, and is likely to increase more and more, reaching to the scale that cannot be undermined.

According to the cables, the Deputy Foreign Minister of South Korea was told by the two Chinese officials that Korea should be reunified under South Korean rule, and that this opinion was gaining ground among Chinese leaders.

According to leading Chinese business magazine Caixin, North Korea accounts for 40 % of China's foreign aid budget and 50, 000 tonnes of oil exports per month to maintain a buffer state against Japan, South Korea, and the United States, but that the three nations were no longer China's enemies, and that trade and investment with them was worth billions of dollars, while its support of North Korea was expensive and internationally embarrassing to support due to its " unruly " behavior and defiance towards China.

According to a study by Goldman Sachs, a unified Korea could have an economy larger than that of Japan by 2050.

According to Maria Werlau, the extreme concentration of power to Castro family seems comparable in modern times only to that of North Korea under the regimes of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung.

According to Japan's National Police Agency, another accomplice may also have died in North Korea.

According to one account, the talks began to break down after the United States insisted on more intrusive verification measures than North Korea was prepared to accept.

According to some accounts, Marshal Peng Dehuai — the overall commander of the Chinese forces in Korea — is said to have invented this tactic.

According to Alf Brown, football writer for The Herald:

According to historian and Herald for Wales, Major Francis Jones, 1908 – 1993, the introduction of the recipe can be attributed to Captain Henry Lewis Edwardes 1788 – 1866.

According to the San Francisco Herald, in a series of articles run in 1853, they give this honor to Captain Joseph R. Walker, who in January 1851 with his nephew James T. Walker and six men, traveled up the Colorado River to a point where it joined the Virgin River and continued east into Arizona, traveling along the Grand Canyon and making short exploratory side trips along the way.

According to Carol Rosenberg, writing for the Miami Herald, Camp X-Ray was visited by a court-ordered forensic FBI team in November 2009.

According to the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, " the school was closed in 2005 because of budget problems and declining enrollment ," and on April 5, 2006 the 85-year-old Welton School building was demolished.

According to the August 12, 1862, Quincy Herald there were 8 Federal dead and 25 wounded.

According to the Dallas Times Herald, it took Vaughan an hour just to walk from the bar to the table across the room where his parents were sitting ; the article also said, " Stevie Ray found his father, a retired asbestos worker who hadn't taken a plane ride since the Korean War, and hugged him until they both cried.

According to The Guardian newspaper, former Fairfax chief executive Fred Hilmer wrote in his memoirs that " he struggled to cope with a left-leaning editorial culture at papers such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and was surprised that journalists saw themselves as advocates rather than simply reporters.

According to the Boston Herald, race director Dave McGillivray said he was sending paperwork to the IAAF to have Mutai's mark ratified as a world record.

According to Carol Rosenberg, writing in The Miami Herald: " The pictures were taken in July, said International Committee of the Red Cross spokesman Bernard Barrett, under an agreement with prison camp staff that lets Red Cross delegates photograph detainees and send photos to family members.

According to Nat Hentoff in his 1957 liner notes for the Blakey Columbia LP of the same name, the phrase " hard bop " was originated by author-critic-pianist John Mehegan, jazz reviewer of the New York Herald Tribune at that time.

According to The NZ Herald of the time, the British lost 39 men killed and 93 wounded during the fighting that day.

According to the Boston Herald list of State pensions, Bulger is currently receiving a pension from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at a rate of $ 198, 205. 92 annually.

According to the Blog Herald, Johnson and LGF " regulars " ( the self-proclaimed " Lizardoids ") have engaged in a number of high-profile feuds and flame wars, pitting LGF supporters against readers of other blogs ( e. g., Daily Kos and later Hot Air ) and alternative media sites ( e. g., Fark and Digg ).

According to a Sunday Herald article in March 2006, Stewart was the basis for a fictional detective:

According to the New Zealand Herald, Clark appeared ' confident and aggressive ' and Brash appeared ' defensive '.

According to MTA board member Mary Z. Connaughton's blog entry for the Boston Herald, all of the pilgrim-hat signage unique to the Turnpike will be eliminated.

According to the Miami Herald Taher and Alwan expected their testimony would be rewarded by being placed in the witness protection program, like the third man whose name was withheld from the Press.

According to The Sydney Morning Herald Ya ' alon said: " We have to confront the Iranian revolution immediately.

According to the Daily Herald, schools like Benet hope to accept the top 40 percent of students taking the exam.

According to the Portland Press Herald, King, who was a supporter of George W. Bush in 2000 ( but endorsed John Kerry in 2004 ), endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election, stating that the Illinois Democrat "... leads with hope and not through fear.

According to the New Zealand Herald, Chapman complained the following day of " insufficient police protection ".

According to Sydney Morning Herald Political Editor Peter Hartcher, prior to the defeat of the Howard Government at the Australian Federal Election, 2007, Abbott had opposed the Government's centrepiece Workchoices industrial relations deregulation reform in Cabinet, on the basis that the legislation exceeded the government's mandate ; was harsh on workers ; and was politically dangerous to the government.

According to Fenella Souter in the Sydney Morning Herald, Mirabella is known for her " caustic, confrontational manner ".