[학술논문] Designing Economic Reforms: The Cases of North Korea and Vietnam
...that the new leadership in Pyongyang is seeking an approach to increase agricultural output toease food shortages and improve the peoples’ standards of living, amidst continuing diplomatic isolation. Such circumstances appear set tocontinue, given the continuing poor relations that Seoul and Washingtonhave with Pyongyang, and the deterioration of Sino-North Korean relations. Set against this...
[학술논문] Can North Korea Catch Two Rabbits at Once: Nuke and Economy? One Year of the Byungjin Line in North Korea and Its Future
...as well as nuclear arsenal. Without making any dramatic changes,the Byungjin Line is unsustainable in the long term, deepening international sanctionsand prolonging the country’s economic isolation. South Korea should follow policiesencouraging North Korea prioritize economy in its own policy, reducing the North’seconomic dependence on China, and adopt a pragmatic approach to the North’snuclear...
[학술논문] When Authoritarianism Survives: North Korea vs. Libya
...intrastate factors, such as Juche ideology, unrestricted power of the leader, reliance on military, dependence of interest groups on the regime, limited liberal reforms, or the degree of country’s isolation from the outside world. However, these explanations proved to be inconsistent on the face of the revolutions of the “Arab Spring”, particularly in Libya. I argue that international factors...
[학술논문] 김정은의 홀로서기와‘백두산 칼바람’⋅‘최첨단 돌파’의 과제 - 『조선문학』 소재 북한소설을 중심으로
...ecology.’ However, as for practical discourses suggested by Kim Jong Un, the first one has a limitation in that it is a behavior to cause criticism of international society and international isolation from the world, including UN. The second one shows a limitation that North Korea will repeat stagnation due to the standstill of economic growth without an influx of foreign capital and technology...
[학위논문] 한반도의 냉전종식과 남북한 평화공존에 관한 연구
...Sunshine Policy with maintenance of the North-South basic agreement. This policy is possible only with maintenance of the present North Korean system, North Korea's escape from international isolation, and solving their economic problems.
As a result, cessation of the Cold War on the Korean Peninsula and a system of coexistence between North and South Korea are the problems to be...