Among the three elements of poem, matter, form and expression, North Korean poems are putting its primary focus on the first. For this reason, even the theories and researches of poems, which were published in North Korea, rarely provides substantial or organized theoretical information about the types and classification of the country's poems. South Korea already has lots of research achievements in regard to North Korean poems. However, there has been little or no researches about the types and classification of those poems. In this sense, the purpose of this study is to classify the types of North Korean poems and examine their characteristics. For the purpose, this researcher reviewed poems found in the above theoretical and research publications, especially those in 『Chosun Literature』released in the 1990s. North Korean poems are largely divided into epic and lyric poems. From a broader view, those epic poems include epic, lyric and epic and narrative poems. The lyric poems of the nation are classified into gasa, which is an old form of Korean verse, long, prose, sicho, dansicho, love, byeoksi, short and recitative poems according to form, farewell, dedicative, satirical, argumentative, , political, scenic, descriptive, local, pastoral, fable, fairy tale, didactic, meditative, gnomic, congratulatory, chudaesi, dangsangsi, cheolisi, affectionate, love, and affectionate and ethical poems according to subject or matter and, in accordance with both subject and form, landscape sicho, scenic and love, travel and love, dansang sicho and long lyric poems. The reason why North Korean poems have many different names as above is partly because Kim Jeong Il pointed out that a diversity of poems should be created and developed, but mainly because in North Korea, diversifying the names of poems were attempted to make the poems not any longer stereotyped in terms of subject, matter and form etc., this researcher thinks.