[연구논문] Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 2021 Progress Report on the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals

...provide an update on the process of achieving each of the 17 SDGs. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (hereafter DPRK or North Korea) were scheduled to present their VNR at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) in 2020, but postponed until July 2021 in the wake of the COVID- 19 pandemic. As North Korea’s first VNR, the review will provide a much-needed look into how one of the world’s most reclusive...

[해외자료] Prospects for Health Cooperation: Changing Health Priorities for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Four years after the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID- 19 a pandemic, humanitarian engagement in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) has yet to fully return to pre-pandemic normalcy.

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

...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] What to Make of North Korea’s Forward-looking Economic Strategy and Prospects

Kim Jong Un ended 2023 sounding confident, both about his positioning of North Korea’s military security and the prospects for economic recovery after extended border closure period due to the COVID- 19 pandemic.

[해외자료] North Korea Begins Dismantling Quarantine Import Facility

Commercial satellite imagery indicates North Korea has begun dismantling warehouses at Uiju Airfield, the country’s largest quarantine import center for goods. The work at the airfield began almost four years to the day since the country shut its borders in response to growing cases of COVID- 19.

[해외자료] Cargo Trucks Lined Up at Sinuiju

Commercial satellite imagery shows that truck traffic at North Korea’s most important international trade border with China is beginning to return to normal. For the first time since the end of the COVID- 19 pandemic, imagery shows multiple trucks queued, waiting to enter a customs yard in Sinuiju—the final stop before crossing into China.

[학술논문] 북한 보건의료 체계의 한계와 남북 협력방안

The global COVID- 19 pandemic took millions of lives away. Fortunately, the spread of the virus seems to be diminished; it is obvious that international society will be reorganized by the ideas of “health security” and “human security”. However, in the case of North Korea, it does not reveal objective and reliable medical data, so international society has difficulties figuring...

[학술논문] Survivalist North Korea’s Selective Tourism Development: Kim Jong Un’s Leadership Legitimacy

From 2012 up until the COVID- 19 outbreak and the country’s border closure in January 2020, North Korea pursued development of a tourism industry on levels unlike before despite perceived ‘threats’ — ideological and political — that international tourism opening purportedly poses to a socialist system. For autarkic, atomized, isolationist, hyper-security conscious and...

[학술논문] North Korea's diplomatic relations and their impact on trade

...imposed sanctions on North Korea. This study aims to discuss North Korea's responses to mitigate the impact of international economic sanctions on trade. Specifically, it focuses on how North Korea's diplomatic relations affect trade activities. This research centers on the period from 2012 to 2019, before the COVID- 19 pandemic, discussing the interaction between North Korea's diplomatic relations...

[학술논문] Contemplating Tourism Politics and North Korea’s Post-Pandemic World

... Pyongyang’s outlook for tourism changed during the pandemic, and what path will North Korea take to revive this seemingly peripheral yet portentously significant leader-linked industry? This paper qualitatively examines the current state of North Korea and its ‘socialist tourism’ by considering various internal dynamics and external factors that influence the leadership. With the...

[현안분석] KDI 북한경제리뷰 2022년 5월

...US-China conflict, COVID- 19 crisis, and accelerating disruptions in global supply chains resulting from the Russia-Ukraine war. On the Korean peninsula, North Korea's recent nuclear test (possibility) combined with the COVID- 19 spread, makes it difficult for anyone to predict in what direction economic and security interests of neighboring countries will develop. The North Korean Economic Research...