[학술논문] 북한이탈주민의 의료이용 현황과 정착 단계별 의료지원 방안

...and conference materials, were reviewed and thematically analyzed. The review indicates that the healthcare needs of NKRs vary across settlement stages. In the early stage, priority needs include treatment for mental health conditions—particularly post-traumatic stress disorder and depression—and infectious disease screening, along with addressing limited healthcare system literacy. Healthcare access...

[학술논문] 시 · 청각적 피드백을 이용한 언어중재가 북한이탈주민의 자연스러운 발화에 미치는 효과

...feedback through acoustical analysis for intonation. The subjects were three adults with no speech disabilities who had been in South Korea for less than five years. They had not received any prior treatment for inflection change. The program was set in a discourse situation and used Praat to evaluate intonation and provide visual feedback as demonstrating proper intonation changes through pitch contour...

[학술논문] The EU’s Policy on the Kaesong Industrial Complex: A Constructivist Analysis of the Korea–EU FTA

...than political concerns. To support this viewpoint, this article discusses the institutional pushback from individual EU member states as well as campaigns organized by civil society groups, which illustrates how the treatment of North Korean products under OP arrangements stokes the continued friction between trade liberalization interests and ethical concerns in international economic relations.

[학술논문] The Politics of Inclusion in a Divided Nation: National Identity and South Koreans’ Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Unification

...regression analyses of the Unification Consciousness Survey (UCS, 2018∼2020), the findings indicate that individuals with a civic identity are more open to multiculturalism, more supportive of equal treatment for foreigners and North Korean defectors, and more favorable toward institutional unification. In contrast, those with an ethnic identity tend to welcome defectors as co-nationals but are less accepting...

[학술논문] Ideology, Stigma, and Survival: Mental Health and Treatment Experiences of North Korean Women under Authoritarian Rule

This study examines how mental health is defined, experienced, and governed under North Korea’s authoritarian system. Drawing on in-depth interviews with six women who received psychiatric treatment before defection, it reconstructs how ideology and institu-tional control shaped perceptions of illness and care. Findings show that psychological distress was moralized as weakness or ideological deviation...

[해외] North Korea Revised its Space Law to Permit Military 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 that space scientists receive preferential treatment for housing.

[해외] North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Center: Plutonium Production Continues Despite Heavy Rains

...weapons program. Moreover, smoke is observed emitting from the Thermal (Steam) Plant at the Radiochemical Laboratory, which may signal early preparations for a forthcoming reprocessing campaign or treatment of radioactive wastes. This may help explain recent activity at the spent fuel reception building and Building 500, as also recently reported by CSIS’ Beyond Parallel. Dismantlement activities continue...