[뉴스] Putin’s China Visit Highlights Military Ties That Worry the West

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia attended a trade fair on Friday in a northeastern Chinese city and toured a state-backed university famous for its cutting-edge defense research, highlighting how economic and military ties between the countries have grown despite, or perhaps because of, Western pressure.

[학술논문] Educational Discourse and Regional Differentiation in North Korea: A City-Level Comparative Analysis of Sinuiju and Rason

... as a flexible discursive interface through which the state manages regional differentiation and legitimizes uneven institutional arrangements within a centralized political system. By foregrounding subnational variation, the article contributes to research on governance, regional complexity, and regime reproduction in North Korea.

[학술논문] From Scarcity to Style: Sartorial Hierarchy and Hybridity in Marketizing North Korea

The present research explores North Korea’s sartorial consumption during the post-crisis period in the 2000s to evaluate the impact of transnational/ transsystemic cultural influence in a state socialist context. Based on interviews with North Korean refugees, we examine how the increasing desire for foreign consumer goods such as clothing, including those from capitalist countries, affected the practice...

[학술논문] Information Control in Closed States: Institutional Adaptation and Managed Leakage in North Korea

...technological surveillance, and social monitoring to regulate people’s access to information. While existing research has emphasized coercive repression and censorship technologies, such approaches often fail to explain the institutional durability of information control in the face of economic transformation and expanding informal markets. This study examines North Korea’s information governance through...

[학술논문] The Multilateral Economic Cooperation for Tumen River Area and China’s Leadership: From the TRADP of UNDP to Chinese Plan of “Chang-Ji-Tu” Development and Opening-up Pilot Area

This research shows how international economic cooperation of Northeast Asian countries has evolved through the plans of economic development around Tumen River area from the UNDP’s proposition of the Tumen River Area Development Programme(TRADP) in 1991 to the current China’s plan of the “Chang-Ji-Tu” Development and Opening-up Pilot Area (CJT). Based on the theoretical debates between structural...

[학술논문] Sport Policy in North Korea: Regime-Specific Trajectories and Challenges

...across the regimes of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un, with a focus on both regime-specific characteristics and structural challenges. METHOD Qualitative content analysis was applied as a research method, and after collecting and reviewing related literature and previous studies, the main concepts and contexts were coded and the characteristics of each regime were derived. RESULT Under the...

[해외] Paving the Way for Hostile Coexistence? What North Korea’s Constitutional Revisions Mean for Inter-Korean Ties

...since the September 2023 revision. A review of this law shows the country made changes across a broad range of areas, from Kim Jong Un’s state leadership to economic, social, and cultural policies. Most of them, if not all, merit further research given the importance of this foundational legal document. However, one of the most consequential elements is what the revised constitution suggests about Pyongyang’s...

[국내] KDI 북한경제리뷰 2025년 7월

...through strategic collaboration based on regional characteristics. Northern Gyeonggi serves as the central nucleus for Korean Peninsula economic integration and industrial cooperation, while Gangwon holds differentiated strategic value as a gateway for northern economic expansion via the East Sea and hub for Mt. Geumgang-Seoraksan tourism and DMZ ecological tourism. Effective implementation requires rational...

[국내] White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2024

Purpose of Publication and Research Methodology The White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea, which the Korea Institute for National Unification has published annually since 1996, aims to raise awareness of North Korean human rights issues at home and abroad and to provide related basic materials by objectively surveying and analyzing the North Korean human rights situation. The White Paper on Human...

[국내] 김정은 정권의 ‘새 세기 산업혁명’ 추진 동향과 전망

...nation. Kim Jong-un regime declared that it would inherit and develop the science and technology-oriented line for building an economic powerhouse and strengthening national defense capabilities. In particular, Kim Jong-un emphasized his will to build a knowledge-based economic powerhouse by continuing to promote the 'Industrial Revolution of the New Century', which was driven by 'Kim Jong-il's resolute...

[국내] 김정은 시대 북한의 사이버 위협과 주요국 대응

...cyberattacks extensively on foreign governments, military agencies, defense industry companies, and energy research institutes for various purposes, such as leaking military and diplomatic secrets. The international community is mainly responding to cyber threats by North Korea through economic sanctions, but as the hacking damage increases and becomes more serious, some in the U.S. are insisting on...