[뉴스] 대북 민간방송, 트럼프發 예산 삭감에 존폐 위기
지난 7월 초 정부의 대북 방송 중단에 이어 민간 대북 방송인 국민통일방송(Unification Media Group·UMG)마저 존폐 기로에 섰다. 트럼프 행정부의 ‘미국 우선주의’ 정책으로 인한 예산 지원 중단 움직임 여파다. ‘정보의 자유가 인권의 핵심’이라는 생각에 지난 20년간 북한 주민에게 외부 소식을 전해온 국민통일방송의 위기는 한반도 정보 지형의 근본적 변화를 예고한다.
[뉴스] North Korean Spies Are Infiltrating U.S. Companies Through IT Jobs Companies are unknowingly hiring North Koreans for hundreds of low-level jobs, giving Pyongyang access to cash and IP
WASHINGTON—When cybersecurity company KnowBe4 was filling a remote IT job in July, it hired a highly skilled applicant who gave his name as Kyle and spoke accented English. He asked the company to ship his company laptop to an address in Washington state.
[뉴스] How North Korea’s lucrative trade in human hair is helping it skirt the impact of sanctions
They almost certainly don’t know it, but western owners of shiny new wigs and false eyelashes could owe their look to North Korean slave labour.
[학술논문] Northeast Asian Security: Perspectives, Bargaining, and Issues In The US Alliances
United States security relations with its allies in Northeast Asia—Japan, South Korea and Taiwan—underwritten by US mutual defense treaties, or Congressional law, are changing. Each alliance, or security partnership, also reveals instances of strong bargaining between the members. However these partnerships also show continuity. Each alliance is now over a half century old and continues
[학술논문] The Korean War (1950-1953) and Christianity: Pro-American Activities of the Christian Churches and the North Korean Reactions
On June 25, 1950, war broke out between North Korea and South Korea. This paper explores how and why the Western European and North American churches, their missionaries, and the Korean churches supported the South Korean government, the United States, and the United Nations during the Korean War. Christian churches in the Western nations considered it imperative to support the United Nations in its
[학술논문] The Use of Force, Humanitarian Intervention, and the Responsibility to Protect - In the Light of a Recent North Korea Contingency Plan
This paper attempts to analyze the conditions to be met in the case of armed intervention for humanitarian purpose. Under the current regime of international law, a most controversial issue of international law today is that if and when without UN Security Council authorization or General Assembly action, any use of armed force for humanitarian intervention would be regarded as lawful or not. Because
[학술논문] 황해남도 지역의 고인돌 고찰
Approximately 800 dolmens are spread in Hwanghaenamdo, North Korea. It has some features as below. 1) The dolmens are not spread at lower altitude above sea level areas like Jaeryunggun, Hwanghaedo, North Korea. That’s because the areas had so low altitude above sea level, that the areas must have been a sea at the time it was made. 2) The average size of dolmens in Baechungun in Hwanghaenamdo
[학술논문] Growth and Stagnation of the Korean Church
The purpose of this thesis is not only to analyze and evaluate 130 years of the Korean church’s growth, from when the Protestant gospel first reached Korean soil to the first 10 years of the 21st century, but also to address problems the Korean church currently faces and to seek to suggest challenges for its future growth. I divided and analyzed the history of the Korean church in the perspective