[뉴스] How North Korea’s lucrative trade in human hair is helping it skirt the impact of sanctions

They almost certainly don’t know it, but western owners of shiny new wigs and false eyelashes could owe their look to North Korean slave labour.

[뉴스] Putin’s China Visit Highlights Military Ties That Worry the West

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia attended a trade fair on Friday in a northeastern Chinese city and toured a state-backed university famous for its cutting-edge defense research, highlighting how economic and military ties between the countries have grown despite, or perhaps because of, Western pressure.

[학술논문] 중재협정을 통한 상사분쟁의 해결촉진

It is well recognized that the availability of prompt, effective and economical means of dispute resolution is an important element in the orderly growth and encouragement of international trade and investment. Increasingly, arbitration, instead of litigation in national courts, has become the preferred means of resolving private international commercial disputes. Under the situation, it will be important...

[학술논문] 북한과 중국의 무역과 물류체계 활성화 방안

...1970s. In particular, trade volume has been shrinked significantly since the late 1990s when China began to ask hard currency payments in their commercial transactions. This paper aims to investigate the conditions and prospects of trade and logistics relations between North Korea and China including the problems existed and then make some suggestions to foster their trade relations. In conclusion...

[학술논문] 1945~1950년 북한의 사회주의적 노동관과 직업동맹의 노동통제

...and the production-relation, most means of production came into people s government s possession. For these reasons, the trade union(chikopdongmaeng)performed more like an executive organization spreading socialist perspective than traditional role as a trade union. The trade union developed not only the production increase campaign but also the ideology education for workers, cultural and physical...

[학술논문] A Study on the Need to Actively Expand the ROK-U.S. Alliance to the Indo-Pacific Region and the Need to Upgrade the Jeju Naval Base as a Missile Defense Base: Focusing on the development of Regional I

...expanding the ROK-US alliance to the Indo-Pacific region. Third, South Korea needs to lay the groundwork for South Korea to secure stable maritime transport routes and receive stable energy in its trade while expanding the ROK-US alliance to the Indo-Pacific region. It is also important for Korea to upgrade its naval base on Jeju Island as a missile defense system amid the expansion of the Korea-U...

[학위논문] Trilateral Security Model in The ROK’s Engagement with ASEAN

...engagement due to strained U.S.-DPRK relations under the Bush administration. His engagement with ASEAN was primarily economic, as seen in the rapid completion of ASEAN-Korea Free Trade Agreement, but could not extend beyond trade to broader diplomatic partnerships. The low engagement occurred under Kim Young-sam, whose focus shifted to regional security due to the Korean nuclear crisis, leaving ASEAN engagement...

[국내] 북한의 대외경제 10년 평가(2001~10년)

...acknowledged practical interest in economic relations with others and that increases in volumes of trade and foreign direct investment are strategies to fulfill its interests. In order to enlarge the scope of its economic cooperation, the North has set priorities in policy agenda as follows: stimulate trade, business cooperation through equity joint venture and joint venture, proactive exchange in knowledge...

[국내] 북한의 투자유치 정책변화와 남북경협 방향

...Rasun Special Zone and Hwanggeumpyeong area near Sinuiju. Indeed, since the mid-2000s, legislation related to foreign investment was revised. For example, International Trade Arbitration Committee was first formed under the trade department in 2004, and law firms were opened for foreign legal consultancy within North Korea, which in turn is for resolving legal issues regarding investment in North...

[국내] Dependencia, North Korea Style

Ever since the end of the Cold War the Sino-DPRK relationship has been the main external buttress helping to prop up the North Korean regime. Beijing has long provided its treaty allies in Pyongyang with economic sustenance and international support in exchange for border stability (and possibly other benefits as well). It is therefore striking that Pyongyang has recently taken to disparaging its partner

[국내] Marketization Trends in North Korea

...partially regulate market activities, for instance, through the restoration of public food distribution systems and the prohibition of business activities for people under the age of 40 and of the trade of industrial products in the markets. Prime Minister Park Bong-ju, who led the introduction of markets, was purged from the cabinet in April 2007 and replaced by then Minister of Land and Marine Transport...

[국내] KEI 북한환경리뷰 2021-01호

...미국의 경제적 이익과 안보에 우선순위를 두겠다는 것이다. 정책 우선순위의 조정을 통해 “미국을 다시 위대하게(Make America Great Again)”라는 선거 구호를 임기 전체에 걸쳐 국내외 정책의 핵심 목표로 내세우면서 세계질서를 위해 미국의 이익을 희생하는 일은 절대 수용하지 않겠다는 의지를 분명히 했다. 자유무역(free trade)보다는 공정무역(fair trade)을 강조하면서 경제적으로 자국의 고용과 산업을 보호하기 위한 보호무역으로 돌아서고 힘을 통한 평화를 주장하면서 동맹국과 우방국을 상대로 미국이 제공하는 안보 우산에 더 큰 비용을 지급할 것을 요구했다. 이러한 미국 외교정책의 선회가 2017년에는 동아시아 환태평양경제동반자협정(TPP) 불참 선언, 2019년 11월 파리기후협약 공식탈퇴...