North Yemen () is the name of the former country that existed in the Arabian Peninsula from 1918 to 1990 in the northern part of what is now Yemen. Its capital was Sana'a from 1918 to 1948 and again from 1962 to 1990. In 1962, the country fought a bloody civil war until the monarchist defeat in 1970. North Yemen was admitted to the United Nations on September 30, 1947, and was one of the predecessor states of Yemen, alongside South Yemen, until its eventual unification. In 2014, the Houthi movement took control parts of North Yemen, which eventually escalated into a civil war.