[해외자료] South Korea’s National Security and the Current Situation on the Korean Peninsula

...episode, Dr. Victor Cha and Andrew Schwartz are joined by Dr. Chung Min Lee, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) and Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST), to discuss his recent report on South Korea’s national security and defense review, and the relationship between ROK-Japan, DPRK, and China under the Yoon administration...

[해외자료] North Korea’s Science and Technology Journals: Getting to Know the Scholars (Part 2)

Part 1of this two-part series provided a list of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) science and technology (ST) journals that are available abroad and noted the limited amount of information they contain compared to journals published...

[해외자료] Sohae Satellite Launching Station: Signs of Daily Life

...org/newstream/1606860164-91719504/symposium-on-space- science-and-technology-2020-held/?t=1607092990544"annual symposiumon space science and technology, showcasing their “scientific and technological successes” in “aerospace development for peaceful purposes,” and work to “accelerate the development of space science and technology.” Among the many issues examined...

[해외자료] Multi-Year Expansion of North Korea’s Yongbyon City

...entertainment facilities. Rewarding scientific communities with new, more modern housing has been common since Kim Jong Un came to power, reflecting his emphasis on the importance of science and technology to North Korea’s future. At the same time, there is no evidence that the older housing complexes at Yongbyon City are being demolished, giving the impression that the number of...

[사회/문화] 북한 과학환상문학과 유토피아

"북한에도 SF가 있어?” [스타워즈], [인터스텔라], [인셉션], [터미네이터] 등등 ‘SF( Science Fiction)’하면 할리우드 영화가 가장 먼저 떠오르는 것은 결코 이상한 일이 아닐 것이다. 우리에게 SF는 그렇게 기발한 과학적 상상력의 산물이며, 그렇기에 경직된 체제의 나라보다는 보다 자유롭고 물질적으로 풍요로운 나라에 어울릴 것 같다는 집단의식이 적잖이 깔려 있다. 그런 면에서 SF와 가장 어울릴 것 같지 않은 나라, 흔히들 동토의 왕국이라 부르는 북한에 SF가 존재하고 있다면? 그것도 이미 1950년대 중반부터 활발히 창작되고 있었다고 한다면? 놀랍게도 모두 사실이다. 북한은 국가정책 차원에서 SF...

[정치/군사] The Sister: The extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea

‘Explosive . . . a ground-breaking and revealing new book’ –Daily Mail ‘In explaining the rise to power of Kim Yo Jong, Lee displays his deep knowledge and understanding of North Korea’s extreme, ruthless and self-obsessed dynastic autocracy, the creators and rulers of a de-facto nuclear weapon state. Not a reassuring story’ – Sir John

[학술논문] 북한 학술지에 실린 태양 연구 활동 분석

...status of astronomical activities in North Korea. The papers are surveyed from the ‘Bulletin of Astronomy’, the ‘Physics’, the ‘Bulletin of Academy of Science’, and the ‘Natural Science’ in North Korea, and SCI journals. In addition, we refer to the presentation material announced in the 2015 IAU by director of Pyongyang Astronomical Observatory (PAO) and...

[현안분석] 김정은 시대 북한의 전략적 선택: 21세기 부국강병의 길

...‘경제건설’의 전략적 노선을 바꾸지 않을 것으로 보인다. It can be said that Kim Jong-un's national strategic route is to build a wealthy and a strong military state in the 21st century. Its core is science and technology-based economic construction, and its ultimate goal is to improve people's lives. To this end, improvement in inter-Korean relations and NK-US relations is required, and the great...

[학술논문] 남, 북한의 화침 연구문헌에 대한 비교연구

...Korea were searched through domestic and overseas databases (KISS, RISS, OASIS, and EMBASE). For North Korean studies, databases from the Information Center on North Korea and Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information were used. Among the searched literatures, clinical studies using FA as a treatment intervention were selected (i.e., randomized controlled trials, and case reports). Finally...

[학술논문] 남북한 초등 생명과학 내용 및 북한 소학교 3, 5학년 생명과학 단원 분석

... science in South and North Korea and the life science units in the 3rd and 5th grades of primary schools in North Korea. The subject of life science education contents are the North Korea's 2013 1st universal 12-year curriculum and South Korea 2015 revised science curriculum. Life science units of the 3rd and 5th grade of North Korea primary schools compared them with the 2015 revised science...

[학위논문] 북한 정치사회화 과정으로서 교육의 특성과 변화 분석 : 김정일과 김정은 시기 비교를 중심으로

...values such as people-orientedness and self-reliance were emphasized, Kim Il-sung-Kim Jong-ilism replaced the Sun-gun ideology. In addition, pragmatic values began to emerge, and the importance of science and technology was highly emphasized. At the structural dimension, both periods remained party-centered. Policies were characterized by abstract rhetoric, which may have been difficult to justify...