[지리/관광]
...yet less understood, than North Korea. In the global consciousness, it exists as a caricature of goose-stepping soldiers and nuclear ambitions-the "Hermit Kingdom." This book cuts through the curtain of propaganda and misinformation to assemble a comprehensive and nuanced picture of the world's most isolated state. Drawing on the three pillars of North Korean analysis-the vital testimony...
[경제/과학]
...questions based on their experiences or perceptions earned while living in North Korea and organized the data by the final defection year of the respondents so that one can understand the reality of North Korea as experienced by North Korean defectors over time. However, exceptions were made when assessing the North Korean economy and society since Kim Jong Un took power, asking questions of those who...
[정치/군사]
... a vibrant democracy, the tenth largest economy, and is home to a world-renowned culture. North Korea is ruled by the most authoritarian regime in the world, a poor country in a rich region, and is best known for the cult of personality surrounding the ruling Kim family. But both Koreas share a unique common history.
 
Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo draw on decades of research...
[학술논문] Can North Korea Catch Two Rabbits at Once: Nuke and Economy? One Year of the Byungjin Line in North Korea and Its Future
... 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 ambitions.
[학술논문] Useless Men, Entrepreneurial Women, and North Korea’s Post-Socialism: Transformation of Gender Roles Since the Early 1990s
...of women in North Korea. In fact, their social standing has improved, as women have assumed important positions in the newly emerging North Korean private economy. Paradoxically, this prominence came about because of the earlier discriminatory policies and practices which marginalized women and excluded them from the ‘proper’ state-led economy. Interestingly, the new economy has emerged...
[학술논문] A Study on Communication Networks Demand Forecasting in Potential Demand Areas of North-Korea
Communication networks in North Korea are inferior as compared to those in South Korea. The demand is limited to special purpose including munitions industry and communication network is not regarded as infrastructure for national economy, yet. Accordingly, people who use communication devices in Korea seem to belong to the upper class and North Korean communication network comes under control of its...
[학술논문] 1945~1948년 북한 소비조합 정책의 전개
...examined. They appeared as part of the new economy of North Korea, and previous studies also took notice of that. They tried to determine their roles in the North Korean government’s economic policy, and their status in North Korean economy in general, but most of those studies resorted to a conclusion that those new elements in the new North Korean economy could not have grown due to all the ideological...
[학위논문] 南北韓 統一政策에 관한 硏究
...threestage/threebasis unification plan based on the Korean People's Community Unification Plan and the present Kim Daejung government that is now proceeding with the northembracing policy by the principle of separation of politics and economy, so called Sunlight policy, after all belong to this theoretical category.
On the other hand, north Korea's unification policy develops the federalistic...