[해외자료] North Korea Claims “Autonomous” Guidance and Big Deployments of Its New Small Solid SRBM

North Korean media reported the use of a “new autonomous navigation system” on a May 17 test of a small solid-propellant short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) first flight-tested in April 2022.

[해외자료] Update on North Korean Human Rights on the First Anniversary of the Biden Inauguration

January 20, 2022, marks the first anniversary of the swearing in of Joseph R. Biden as president of the United States. Last month also marked the 10th anniversary of the elevation of Kim Jong-un to supreme leader of North Korea following the death of his father in December 2011, and South Korean president Moon Jae-in will step down following the elections in two months on March 9.

[현안분석] 오바마 미 행정부의 ‘핵 선제 불사용(No First Use)’ 검토 가능성과 우리에 대한 함의

버락 오바마(Barack Obama) 미국 대통령은 취임 첫해인 2009년 4월 체코의 수도 프라하에서의 연설을 통해 ‘핵무기 없는 세상(a world without nuclear weapons)’을 주창하였다. 동 연설에서 ▲핵 군축, ▲핵안보 정상회의(Nuclear Security Summit), ▲포괄적 핵실험금지조약(CTBT: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty) 비준, ▲이란과 북한 핵 문제 해결, ▲이란 핵 위협에 대응하여 유럽 내 미사일방어시스템(Missile Defense System) 구축 등의 구상을 발표하였다. 또한, 오바마 대통령은 1945년 히로시마와 나가사키에 원폭을 투하한 국가로서 핵무기 없는 세상을 만들기 위한 ‘도의적

[학술논문] Choosing a Path to the Elusive Goal of DPRK Denuclearization

...additional negotiations and agreements. Supporters of the first way – a timebound roadmap – criticize the idea of pursuing a succession of free-standing deals. They use some of the same argumentation that proponents of rapid denuclearization use to criticize any long-term, incremental approach: that the process will not proceed beyond the first phase and will result in eventual acceptance of North...

[현안분석] Breakdown in China-North Korea Relations: Caused Not by the Third Nuclear Test but by Failed Economic Cooperation

...his Chinese counterparts from 2000 to 2011. However, China’s distrust of North Korea was enhanced by its sense of deception that Pyongyang was not interested in economic liberalization but only money. Against this background, the article will address how the high hopes that Beijing had for Pyongyang plummeted to distrust and disrespect, driving a wedge between the two to the point of no return

[학위논문] 김정은 시대의 산업기술 혁신정책과 현실 - 기술 수준과 토대, 현장 기술역량 -

...strengthening on-site technical capabilities. From the position of the North Korean authorities, there was a policy need for ‘knowledge’ education for technical personnel and the use of a certain level of communication networks and technology, but the chronic problem of a lack of national resources remained. Under these circumstances, the ‘distance education university’...

[학술논문] Qualitative study on the changes in mental health perceptions among female North Korean defectors in South Korea

...'mental health' in North Korea and did not look into their own mental health because it was difficult to live without an identity in a third country. They encountered mental health for the first time in Korea and had their own definition of it. Although some subjects approached mental health services on their own when experiencing psychological distress after becoming aware of mental health...