[해외자료] North Korea’s War Against Outside Information and Culture

...government’s war against outside information and culture has intensified.At its core, this war stems from the government’s belief that outside information and culture, which fall under the umbrella of “non-socialist culture,” causes fissures in people’s loyalty toward the regime, particularly the young generation, and poses an existential threat to society’s status quo.

[해외자료] Punggye-ri Update: Status Quo

As part of Beyond Parallel’s ongoing detailed coverage of North Korea’s WMD and ballistic missile developments, this report presents an update of the currently observable activities at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Facility as of June 24, 2022. The image shows no significant developments or changes to the areas outside of the portals for Tunnel No. 3 (also known as the South Portal), from

[학위논문] 지정학으로 본 러시아제국의 對한반도정책(1884-1904) : 팽창원인과 실패과정을 중심으로

...all fronts, including Europe, Central Asia, and the Far East. When a conflict with an oceanic state occurred in Europe, expansion policies in Central Asia and the Far East were delayed in favor of status quo. In contrast, when the situations in Europe stabilized, expansion policies were adopted on the Asian front. Thirdly, changes in the Far East and the Korean peninsula policies of the Russian...

[학위논문] <굿 비즈니스, A Good Business> : 탈북 다큐멘터리에서 여성 캐릭터 역할 변화에 관한 연구

...beloved woman as the objet in South Korea.GwangOk of ltA Good Businessgt is filled with desire. Although she had similar experiences as KumHee and HaeYeon GwangOk does not stay in the status quo. From the position of a victim who had been sold around she moved to the position of a North Korean defector broker who sells North Korean women. For her the others are human rights activists. She...

[현안분석] The First 100 Days of the Second Trump Administration: An Assessment of Foreign and National Security Policies and Outlook

...characteristics: (1) disregard for the rules-based order, (2) a comprehensive overhaul of alliance structures, (3) employment of defense cost-sharing as a bargaining chip. Such maneuvers have repercussions for global dynamics with American isolationism, transnational dissemination of nationalist exceptionalism, and new strategic opportunities for revisionist powers seeking to alter the status quo.

[학위논문] 中國의 對北 “影響力” 行事에 關한 硏究 : 北核 危機 深化에 따른 中國의 對應을 中心으로

...China has judged that the U.N. economic sanctions on North Korea have only caused it to lose its influence and have had no effect. China's policy on the Korean Peninsula aims to maintain the status quo. To this end, China should continue to maintain its relations with North Korea, and in some cases, it should ensure that the North Korean regime does not collapse through compensation and assistance...

[학위논문] North Korea as a revisionist state : leaders' political psychology of nuclear provocations

...approach, or an international level of analysis, that generate a “ status- quo bias” when trying to understand and predict its behavior. In other words, taking for granted that North Korea behaves like all rational state actors do simply in response to geostrategic international position to preserve the status- quo, studies on its foreign policy behaviors have offered limited diagnoses and...