[뉴스] Tech companies have a big remote worker problem: North Korean operatives

A growing number of the nation’s top tech firms have hired remote information technology workers, only to discover that the employees were actually North Korean cyber operatives.

[학술논문] From Coercive Distribution to Material Co-optation: Changing Mechanisms of Political Control in North Korea’s Labor Market

In this article, we discuss how the North Korean government has dealt with the emergence of a private labor market within the country. We utilize theories from the comparative study of political control in authoritarian regimes, and examine a novel mechanism of material co-optation by which North Korean workers purchase the right to exit the state sector and work in the private sector. This form of...

[학술논문] 한국전쟁 직후 인천 국민보도연맹원 집단희생과 ‘조선인민군’의 전시동원 정책

...Incheon and their family. After occupation of Incheon, North Korean People’s Army received major agencies and reformed the organizations. Occupation force brought more than half of people needed to rule occupied area over from North Korea. More than half of 99 members in police of Incheon were from North Korea and most of them were the Korean Workers’ Party members, who controled center of police and...

[학술논문] 식민지 조선의 支那文學科의 운명 ― 경성제국대학의 支那文學科를 중심으로

...literature to the Chinese Literature Department in Keijo Imperial University. Korean graduates from the department who made there career in journalism and academia include Kim Tae-jun, who served as chief of the Cultural Department of the Workers Party of South Korea, and Bae Ho and Lee Myong-sun, who defected to North Korea-those whose existence has been forgotten (at least in the study of the Chinese...

[학술논문] 1945~1950년 북한의 사회주의적 노동관과 직업동맹의 노동통제

...elementary labor science and administration system, and low wages at that time. Therefore,North Korean political power used its ideological mobilization as a primary means to motivate worker through the establishment of perspective on labor. The main point of the socialist perspective on labor established in North Korea is that the characteristic of labor is changed from alienated labor in capitalism...

[학술논문] 중국 출판 조선어 교재의 문화 요소 변화 양상 연구

...Korean culture, elements related to history, politics, and economy were prominently featured in the initial phase, demonstrating the superiority of the North Korean system, as well as advocating for the Workers’ Party and Chairman Kim Il-sung. Nevertheless, this emphasis diminished considerably in later periods. Conversely, concerning Chinese culture, elements related to politics, history, values, and economy...

[해외] Expert Takes on North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress

...of 38 North’s North Korea Briefing, a quarterly publication on North Korea’s internal dynamics and foreign policy, offer their initial assessments of the February 19-25 Ninth Party Congress. At the event, Kim Jong Un reviewed the country’s achievements over the past five years and outlined Pyongyang’s domestic and foreign policy goals for the next five. The Congress also revised the Workers’ Party...

[해외] Assessing North Korea’s Five-Year Effort to Develop 13 New Nuclear and Missile Systems

In his January 2021 report to the Eighth Party Congress of the Korean Workers’ Party, Kim Jong Un set out goals to develop 13 previously unrevealed nuclear and missile weapons systems. Four of those 13 systems probably have been operationally deployed over the subsequent five years, two may currently be operational, three are undergoing testing, and the status of the remaining four is unknown. These...

[해외] A Closer Look at the Yelabuga UAV Factory

...could house approximately 20,000 workers. Our analysis shows that approximately 15% of the entire Yelabuga SEZ’s facilities are now likely involved in the production of UAVs and UCAVs. Any North Korean involvement with the Yelabuga UAV factory would likely expose Pyongyang to Russia’s wartime UAV production experience and technology, which could be valuable to North Korea’s expanding UAV and UCAV programs...

[국내] North Korea's Third-Generation Hereditary Succession and its Future

...country’s next leader. On September 27, the morning of the Party Delegates' Conference, North Korea officially announced that Kim Jong-un was given the title of a four-star general, thus beginning preparations for the public formation of the succession system. Kim Jong-un was also named the Vice Chairman of the Korean Workers Party (KWP)'s Central Military Commission during the Conference which was made official...

[국내] North Korea’s Succession Plan: Stability and Future Outlook

...Conference held on September 28th formally initiated the Kim Jong-un succession process. North Korea presented its dynastic successor to the world as Kim Jong-un appeared on the balcony alongside Kim Jong-il to observe a massive military parade on October 10th, celebrating the anniversary of the Korean Workers’ Party (KWP) founding. In an unusual move, the authorities even invited Western journalists...