[학술논문] From a Buffer Zone to a Strategic Burden: Evolving Sino-North Korea Relations during Hu Jintao Era

...threatening peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, the more China would positively think over North Korea’s contingency intensifying cooperation with the United States. In such transition,the stronger the rising great power thinkers, the less the diplomatic space for North Korea exists. North Korea would stop being a buffer zone but a strategic burden in their perspective, transforming China’s relationship...

[학술논문] 동아시아와 책임의 사회인문학-1 ― 자기 성찰로서의 동아시아론 ―

...“response,” which means to react to a certain call in a particular way. An introspective or critical East Asia discourse discussed by the Changbi circle has always been reminded of characteristic space of Korea since the end of the Cold War to accomodate the painful modern and current history of East Asia, and developed the discussion to form the East Asian community. The idea that the people on...

[학술논문] 두만강 과경권역(跨境圈域)의 ‘개발’과 조선족의 이동성― 월경적 사회자본과 복수의 경계넘기/이웃하기

...border-crossing since the border(s) became porous. Rather than reducing all the changes to the government policy, the cultural contestation in everyday life of Korean-Chinese in the changing urban space is highlighted. Moreover, the everyday practices and tactics by Korean-Chinese are investigated through the concepts of neighboring and social capital. The research has several implications. First...

[학술논문] North Korea’s Pursuit of Coercive Leverage in the Information Age: Expanding Cyber and Counterspace Capabilities

...importance of strengthening international regulatory frameworks by fostering a shared understanding that North Korea’s cyber and space programs are closely tied to its nuclear and missile strategies as instruments of coercion; and last, the necessity for broader global cooperation among both state and non-state actors to mount a coordinated response to evolving threats in the cyber and space domains.

[학위논문] 韓國의 安保와 韓半島 平和體制構築에 關한 硏究

...and the economic cooperation should be sustained consistently to save the space to solve the problems through dialogue between the South and the North even though the relations between the U.S and the D.P.R.K would be worsen. That is a way of securing the negotiation basis and lever in three dimensional game as like current situation. Also, we must pursue the R.O.K-U.S cooperation policy in parallel...

[국내] KDI 북한경제리뷰 2025년 12월

...infrastructure―including new bridge construction and the modernization of railways and ports―that point to the emergence of a restructured economic space in the Russian Far East. These developments highlight a dual reality in which closer North KoreaRussia cooperation adds constraints to the regional security environment while also generating geoeconomic opportunities linked to the Arctic shipping route and...

[해외] North Korea Revised its Space Law to Permit Military Use

...revised its Space Development Law (우주개발법) in 2022 to allow for use of space for national defense purposes. Specifically, it removed sentences that previously committed to only peaceful uses of space and opposed the militarization of space and now threatens countermeasures on countries that attempt “unfriendly acts” on its space program. It expands the scope of international cooperation and codifies...

[국내] 김정은 시기 북한의 우주 능력 평가 및 시사점

...Korea’s space capabilities and space assets during the Kim Jong-un era and draw implications. North Korea has secured various launch vehicle technologies needed for long-range and intercontinental ballistic missiles, ostensibly for the peaceful use of space development. In addition, Kim Jong-un laid the foundation for space development through the ‘Space Development Act’, ‘National Space Development...

[국내] 바이든 행정부의 대북정책 전망과 시사점

...its role in the multilateral negotiation environment, too. To this end, the government should urgently come up with measures to minimize the possibility of conflict with the U.S., expand the space for cooperation with Japan, and check China's unilateral influence on North Korea, and, above all, curb the North's provocations during the policy hiatus. Examples could be the use of multilateral humanitarian...

[국내] DMZ 및 접경지역 남북협력의 쟁점과 과제

...북측의 수요, 대북제재의 현실과 DMZ관할권 조정, 접경지역 남측 주민들의 이해관계 등의 현실적 문제에 대한 고려가 있어야 할 것이다. 물론 가장 근본적으로는 남북 간 군사적 긴장 완화 및 신뢰구축이 병행되어야 할 것이다. After the Korean War, the border area between the two Koreas has been a space of disconnection and conflict. However, unintended results, such as the restoration of ecology has been given. In addition, issues for which inter-Korean cooperations are necessary are increasing,...