Asian nation vs DPRK

Asian nation and DPRK both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian nation	Yes	No	No	No
DPRK	Yes	No	No	No

Asian nation (noun)	DPRK (noun)
any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent	a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948