[해외자료] North Korean Troops in Russia: What Are They Doing There?

... this news highlights the cooperation but raises questions about why the world’s third-largest army, which outnumbers its adversary considerably and has been promoting a narrative that it is winning, needs help at this time. The appearance of North Korean forces in Russia points to both a deepening of security cooperation between dictatorships and increasing desperation on the Russian side.

[해외자료] Aircraft Return to Sunchon Airbase?

...Declaration, which aims to strengthen extended deterrence by establishing a shared decision-making framework and the Nuclear Consultation Group (NCG). The state visit came against the backdrop of increasing tension between the two Koreas for North Korea’s “unilateral” severance of the cross-border hotline.

[해외자료] Freight Piles Up at Uiju Airport

New commercial satellite imagery shows an increasing amount of cargo stacked in neat, organized piles at North Korea’s Uiju Airfield, a presumed cargo quarantine center near the Chinese border. The first cargo trains from China since the border lockdowns in 2020 arrived at the airfieldjust...

[해외자료] A DECADE OF NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TESTS

...anniversary of North Korea’s first nuclear test. Each new nuclear test triggers comparisons with previous tests and predictions about when future tests will be carried out by North Korea. The increasing frequency of missile tests and nuclear tests this year alone seems to indicate that it is only a matter of time before the next test happens. As the data below demonstrates, North Korea has made...

[해외자료] Multi-Year Expansion of North Korea’s Yongbyon City

...reflecting his emphasis on the importance of science and technology to North Korea’s future. At the same time, there is no evidence that the older housing complexes at Yongbyon City are being demolished, giving the impression that the number of personnel living there now or expected in the future is increasing. This would suggest a growth in the numbers of personnel at the nuclear complex as well.

[현안분석] 통일 이후 북한지역의 산지관리 기본방향 연구

...이 보고서는 대북 식량지원 재개 논의에 앞서 그 고민을 먼저 해보자는 의도에서 작성된 것이다. 이 보고서에서는 긴급구호 지원, 취약계층을 위한 지원, 개발협력과 연계된 지원 등 세 가지의 대북 식량지원프로그램 구축을 건의하고 있다. Background of Research Recently, there are increasing discussions on food assistance to North Korea. Supporters suggest that humanitarian rice assistance resolves both North Korea’s food shortage problem and our rice stock problem simultaneously...

[현안분석] 미국의 한반도 확장억제 평가

...nuclear and/or ICBM/SLBM tests. It is thus important for ROK to have the United States convinced that those two allies are sharing common interests in the midst of U.S.-China strategic competition. Increasing the level of reliability of the extended deterrence and supplementing it with additional measures would be impossible without shared strategic interests between the United States and ROK.

[현안분석] 대이란 경제제재 효과성 검토와 북한에의 함의

...this article analyzes that the multilaterality of sanctioning actors including the international organizations, and the absence of the active “black knight state” that contributed to increasing the effectiveness of economic sanctions in Iran. In addition, this article evaluates that the diversification of the sanctions’ contents enhanced the sanctions effectiveness because those were...

[학위논문] 북한이탈주민 대상 창업교육 프로그램 개발에 관한 연구

...the only country that remains divided. The ideological conflict and military costs resulting from this division, referred to as the 'cost of division,' pose an excessive burden. Amid the increasing importance of the social integration and economic independence of North Korean defectors settled in South Korea as a way to use this cost as a resource for social development, entrepreneurship among...

[학위논문] 경제위기 이후 북한 노동시장에 관한 연

...‘exploitative labor,’ which is strictly punished. Nevertheless, the primary reason for the growth of the labor market in practice was the sharp decline in real wages of workers and the increasing economic burden on businesses due to the economic crisis. The authorities, in turn, had little choice but to tacitly allow the use of the labor market by both workers and businesses, given the collapse...