DPRK vs Asian country

DPRK and Asian country both are nouns.

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

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