[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 declaredCOVID-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.

[현안분석] Managing Decline? NATO’s Uneasy Future After the 2025 Summit

...like a moment of strategic renewal and more like performative display aimed at concealing the alliance’s underlying decline. In this context, this Issue Brief examines what the 2025 NATO Summit reveals about the trajectory of the alliance as well as its implications for South Korea’s approach to alliance burden-sharing with the United States and its relationship with NATO more broadly.

[현안분석] Signals in the Noise: North Korea’s Participation in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Catalyst for Europe-South Korea Cooperation

...North Korea, and Belarus. The presence of North Korean military personnel on Russian soil marks the first instance where East Asian forces have become direct participants in European hostilities. In spite of the seemingly unprecedented nature of this development, North Korea’s entanglement in the war in Ukraine is in fact yet another demonstration of just how intertwined Europe and Asia...

[학위논문] 北韓의 先軍軍事戰略에 관한 硏究

With the late 1980's collapse of socialist governments in Eastern Europe, internal economic difficulties in the mid 1990s, and the death of its leader Kim IL Sung, North Korea seemed to face a severe crisis. However, North Korea is rather strengthening its current system by conducting missile launches and nuclear experiments, despite its economic difficulties and voice of concern from the international...

[학위논문] 북한 사회통제기제 분석과 체제유지 및 변동요인 연구

...external blocking from international economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation; sanctions and supports disconnected from United States and South Korea will be a factor to surging fluctuations of the North Korean system. In the short term; North Korea regime will maintain the current system the role of social control mechanism. However; it is difficult to predict because there is a limit effective...

[학위논문] 북한 장마당이 경제와 체제에 미친 영향에 대한 실증분석 연구

...communism in Eastern Europe collapsed; and ​​the transition to a market economic system was made. In this process; this study analyzes the impact of the informal economy in North Korea based on the rationale of the‘Informalization Hypothesis;’in which informal economic activities of the country such as the black market erode the planned economic system. North Korea's Juche ideology...