[뉴스] What’s known, and not known, about the partnership agreement signed by Russia and North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un say a new strategic partnership is a breakthrough, but what it means for their relationship is still uncertain.Rus
[뉴스] The Guardian view on North Korean women: a daughter’s rise does nothing to help others
strolling hand-in-hand with her father at a missile launch. Celebrating Pyongyang’s first spy satellite alongside him. Lauded not only as “most-beloved” but as “respected”, the “morning star of Korea” and “female general”.
[뉴스] North Korea fires artillery shells towards South's border island
North Korea has fired more than 200 rounds of artillery shells off its west coast, towards the South's Yeonpyeong island, Seoul's military has said. South Korea ordered civilians to seek shelter on the island before holding live fire drills of its own. The South called it a "provocative act", but the North denied the islands were in danger from its firing drills.
[뉴스] North Korea's Kim Jong Un abandons unification goal with South
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said unification with the South is no longer possible, and that the constitution should be changed to designate it the "principal enemy".
[뉴스] North Korea will no longer pursue reconciliation with South because of hostility, Kim Jong Un says
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for rewriting the North’s constitution to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries, state media said Tuesday.
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...Korea's formidable military, its destabilizing nuclear program, its sophisticated cyber warfare capabilities, and its fraught foreign relations with China, the United States, and its estranged sibling, South Korea. Ultimately, this work provides an indispensable guide to understanding the forces of change bubbling beneath the surface of this monolithic state. By examining the impact of smuggled information...
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...life was determined in 1953, near the end of the Korean War. My grandfather, a South Korean soldier, was captured by North Korean forces. He endured imprisonment, beatings, and torture, and after his release, he was forced to labor in a coal mine. Similarly, my mother was compelled to work in a coal mine, where she met and married a man whose family had also been sentenced to the same fate. As the child...
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...Written by Dr Sung-Yoon Lee, a scholar and specialist on North Korea who has advised the US government, The Sister is a jaw-dropping account of the spectacular rise of Kim Yo Jong, de-facto deputy to her brother, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, and the most powerful woman in North Korea. In 2022, in a particularly fiery speech, Kim Yo Jong threatened to nuke South Korea, reminding the world of the dangers...
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...major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day “Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. . . . A crisp and balanced account.”—Christopher Harding, The Telegraph Korea has a long, riveting history—it is also a divided nation. South Korea is a vibrant democracy, the tenth largest economy, and is home to a world-renowned...
[학술논문] Determinants of Happiness among North Korean Defectors after Resettlement in South Korea
...determinants of happiness among North Korean defectors by analyzing the subjective and objective measures of social class. Using survey data of North Korean defectors living in South Korea, this study explores how social class before and after defection is associated with defectors’ happiness. Results show that subjective and objective economic status in South Korea are positively associated with happiness...
[학술논문] Closing the Inter-Korean Divide: Evaluating Intergroup Contact Classes for South Korea’s Unification Education
Persistent prejudice and a growing sense of social distance toward North Korean refugees have become significant obstacles to their integration into South Korean society. South Korean unification education has, thus far, not provided an effective response to this challenge. This case study introduces the North-South Forum as a potential solution and evaluates its impact on 135 middle school students...
[학술논문] 한국어 표준어 화자의 북한 방언에 대한 음성 수렴에서의 단어 친숙도와 과제 조건의 영향
...whereas the other half were asked to explicitly imitate the model talker. Overall, Seoul standard speakers showed a weak but consistent phonetic convergence to the North Korean dialect spoken by the model talker, although North and South Korea are in a tense political relationship. More importantly, Korean speakers showed more imitation in the explicit than the implicit condition, whereas word familiarity...
[학술논문] The Centrality of U.S.-DPRK Relations in Trilateral Cooperation: The Cases of KEDO and TCOG
...trilateral cooperation among South Korea, the United States, and Japan in addressing the North Korean nuclear issue, focusing on the centrality of U.S.-North Korea relations. The two cases of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) and the Trilateral Coordination and Oversight Group (TCOG) shows this power dynamics in the negotiation of the North Korea nuclear problem. The analysis...
[학술논문] Hallyu (Korean Wave) in North Korea: The Effect of South Korean Media Exposure on the Perceptions of North Koreans
...association of exposure to South Korean media with North Koreans’ attitudes on capitalism, individualism, South Korea, and their own regime (North Korean media and supreme leader). Although Hallyu (Korean Wave) content is present in North Korea, its effects remain understudied. Using survey data from 1,241 North Korean defectors (2011-2020), the study finds that exposure to South Korean media is positively...