[학술논문] Educational Discourse and Regional Differentiation in North Korea: A City-Level Comparative Analysis of Sinuiju and Rason
...framings vary between the two cities. Sinuiju is positioned as an educationally differentiated and institutionally dense space, whereas Rason is framed through administrative exceptionality, labor integration, and intensified regulation linked to its special economic zone status. Temporal analysis indicates that educational discourse is mobilized episodically, consistent with campaign-driven governance...
[학술논문] Economic Experimentation under Authoritarian Closure: Urban and Social Transformation in North Korea’s Rason SEZ
This study examines how the Rason Special Economic Zone (SEZ), an experimental initiative in highly closed North Korean society, has affected urban space and everyday life, and identifies the factors driving these changes. Drawing on satellite data on nighttime illumination from 1992 to 2023 and building density from 1990 to 2020 for 68 districts in Rason, we combined statistical analyses with in-depth...