The weekly update:
So this week, it's Korea. Some useful sites:

CIA World Factbook: North Korea

State Dept: North Korea links to background notes, etc.

BBC Country Profile

BBC Korea Timeline

Yahoo! Full Coverage: news and links

North Korea Nukes lots of good information on military, war plans, nuclear program, etc. from Global Security think tank.

Korea Special Collection lots of information from Monterey Institute of International Studies.

North Korea Special Weapons from Federation of American Scientists.

North Korean Studies page from a professor at Australian National University, based in Russia.

North Korean websites from politicalresources.net.

Washington Post: North Korea story collection and links.

Korea Web Weekly news from Korea.

Korean History links page from UC Berkeley.

And more useful links....

Reference

DeploymentLink Defense Dept site tracks military deployment to Middle East.

Iraq Watch site monitors Iran's weapons of mass destruction program; compiling a database of companies that supplied technology to Iraq.

Military Associations directory help from military.com.

Disaster Finder from NASA.
Statistics

Uniform Crime Reports, Jan-June 2002 (preliminary) from FBI.
Governments/Politics

County report cards from Governing.com includes Broward and Miami-Dade.
Tools

Searchenginez.com a new site combines lots and lots of search engines in one pulldown menu so you can get to them all from one page; also lots of category searches available here.

Got Wi-Fi? want to know where you can go for wireless access?802.11 Hot Spots has a directory of places with wireless internet access. In Miami: a few hotels and airport airline desks.
News

Wikipedia this ongoing project enlists Web users to create an online encyclopedia in many languages. Note the Current Events page, which lists links to the news, including Background articles.
Journalism

International Womens' Media Foundation journalists group.

Lost Remote a group Weblog about the TV industry and new technology, redo of another site by same name.
Business:

Big Class Action database find cases nationwide, by category.
Florida, Public Records, People: no links this week.


Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

James J. Kilpatrick: My journey from racism column in Atlanta Journal Constitution. Still around at 82...

Rich Gordon writes about news "convergence" in Medill journal

Orlando Sentinel investigation finds criminals under house arrest committed rapes
Fun/Entertaining:

Amazon.com's Purchase Circles find out what people are buying, by geographic area or type of group.

Best of 2002 Online Journalism Review's Spike Report links to some of the year's most fascinating stories/websites.

Re-Date.com enter a date and find out when anniversaries will be.

Create your own snowflake and publish it online.

Firmament: enter a URL and entire text of the web page comes up as links.

Best booking photos of the year from Smoking Gun. Bonus link: Diana Ross' arrest report

This Japanese Weblog asked users of mobile phone cameras to email their New Year's shots...here's what they got.

Drink recipes from American Bartenders School.

The Human Clock enter your time zone and get real time from real people. I made this a separate window on my desktop and really enjoy seeing the time change....For something similar, with words, The Letter Project.