This study aims to identify research trends of North Korean dance and offer future-oriented perspectives on Korean dance for the unification of North and South. To this end, I collected 86 books, 52 journal articles, and 40 M. A. theses and Ph. D. dissertations from Korea's National Digital Library, the Korea Research Information, and the National Diet Library's database collections on 'bukhanchum' and 'North Korean dance.' I categorized them into publication periods, research areas and genres, publishers, universities, journals, researchers and institutions, and research methods. I charted them in terms of synchronism, ratio, and decrease, focusing on their status and information. Ideological revolution had been typically emphasized in theoretical assessment and overview of North Korean dance until the 1990s. Choreographic tendencies, the flow of dance forms, comparative research of North and South Korean dance, and the features and changes of dance are discussed in relation to North Korean politics and social changes. It is important to study monographs on dance, published in Pyongyang, North Korea. But their factual data and status reports can reveal many problems. Since the 2000s, various experimental researches have been conducted. They attempt to clarify the relationship between art and ideology. Policy studies and dance theory and practice with practical measurement and analysis are desperately needed, in order to precisely identify the essence of North Korean dance.