[해외자료] Imagery Analysis of Rail and Road Traffic Between Dandong and Sinuiju and the Effects of Covid-19

...onclick="return hhEndnotes_show(5204)"2The border shutdown, now well over one year, has already had significant impacts on the North Korean economy. In 2020 alone, North Korea’s economy is estimated to have contracted by up to 10 percent, marking North Korea’s largest annual slide since the famine in 1992, when the economy shrank by 7.1 percent.

[해외자료] Recent Chinese Construction Suggests Expectations for Broader Trade

Commercial satellite imagery of the Sinuiju border crossing shows that work has resumed on the Chinese side of the bridge, which may indicate some anticipation of the bridge’s eventual opening. Construction of this large suspension bridge connecting Dandong to Sinuiju, a$350-million...

[학술논문] North Korea;Apparel Production Networks and UN Sanctions: Resilience through Informality

...more informal and clandestine basis. North Korea’s integration into apparel production networks has also taken the form of the dispatch of workers to factories in China’s northeastern border regions. Yet there is evidence that the recent sanctions imposed on such practices has similarly led to illicit practices such as working on visitors’ visas;often with the help of Chinese enterprises...

[현안분석] Freedom of Movement in North Korea

...social changes in North Korea through the growth of the jangmadang economy, rampant corruption, the regime’s control of its people, among other aspects. In particular, the Kim Jong-un regime adopts strong social control by reinforcing control over outside information and culture, and interdicting defection attempts by border control. Yet, as state control increases, the people’s way...

[학위논문] 북한 토지이용권 연구 : 중국·북한 비교분석

...spreading throughout North Korea cannot be completely excluded. The special economic zones established by socialist countries in the border area serve as laboratories that introduce and apply capitalist mechanisms. Various laws and systems related to the market economy, such as land rental, foreign capital attraction, and labor management, were implemented. This experience gradually spread to open cities...