[교육지원] [2018 통일나눔펀드 지원사업] Korea Podcast and News / Data App

...newsletters and inflexible nature of the NK News paywall, readership of this has dwindled over the past 24 months. As such, given increased user demand for consuming information via App form and the fact that such technology can facilitate more flexibility in regulating the provision of free guest access to articles, NK Consulting Inc wishes to build native iOS and Android OS applications that can do...

[해외자료] The 20×10 Initiative Brings Factories at the Cost of Agricultural Land

The regional industry push under the banner of the 20×10 regional development plan seeks to foster sustainable manufacturing by building new light industrial hubs in 20 cities and counties every year for ten years. The plan began in 2024 and that year, installed factories for food, clothing and daily goods in 20 communities across the country.

[해외자료] 20×10 Factories: Different Locations, Similar Products

The first factories built under North Korea’s 20×10 plan for regional industry are spread across the country, but their production is not nearly so varied. In each of the 20 locations chosen for the new clusters in 2024, factories were built to produce similar products: food, clothing and household goods. The products match Kim Jong Un’s stated goal of the regional industry

[해외자료] North Korea’s Efforts to Attain De Facto Nuclear Weapon State Status and ROK-US Response Strategy

United States President Donald Trump has already made at least one statement referring to North Korea as a nuclear power, although has subsequently walked back those remarks. While China continues to call for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Russia appears to have abandoned that agenda, embracing its treaty ally’s nuclear status. This article examines what “de facto” recognition

[해외자료] Manpo Unha Factory Part 1: A Missing Piece in North Korea’s Nuclear Puzzle

Key Findings The Manpo Unha Factory is an important but little-known component of North Korea’s nuclear infrastructure as the prime supplier of various bulk chemicals to the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center. Among the chemicals reportedly supplied to Yongbyon is nitric acid, a crucial component to the chemical reprocessing campaigns conducted at Yongbyon’s Radiochemistry

[해외자료] Manpo Unha Factory Part 1: A Missing Piece in North Korea’s Nuclear Puzzle

Key Findings The Manpo Unha Factory is an important but little-known component of North Korea’s nuclear infrastructure as the prime supplier of various bulk chemicals to the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center. Among the chemicals reportedly supplied to Yongbyon is nitric acid, a crucial component to the chemical reprocessing campaigns conducted at Yongbyon’s Radiochemistry

[학술논문] Plurality-in-Time and Ethnic Conflicts Found in Pre- and Post-1945 Rumors －Departures and Returns in the Short Stories of An Hoe-nam and Yŏm Sang-sŏp－

This paper looks into the nature of rumors found in the short stories of An Hoe-nam and Yŏm Sang-sŏp written about departures and returns in the time period surrounding 1945. By doing so, the aim is to shed light on the transition from the ordering of sovereign power under an imperial structure to the Cold War system built around the nation-state, and what impact this had on the lives of individuals

[학술논문] 북한이탈주민을 위한 의료서비스 만족 및 재이용에 관한 연구

Korea government enacted the “Law on the Protection and Settlement Support of North Korean defectors” in 1997 and the government has implemented various support policies for the defectors. However, most of the support policies for North Korean defectors are in a very poor situation. In this regard current study is performed to build a successful medical support system that targets the defectors

[학술논문] 북한의 ‘신해방지구’ 주민 편입 정책과 그 특징

This study analyzes North Korea’s incorporation policy for residents in ‘newly liberated areas’ and the characteristics of that policy. In particular, the focus is on the fact that these areas were incorporated into the ‘already established’ North Korean system, rather than equal combination between North Korea and the mid-western region to the south of the 38th parallel...

[학술논문] Vietnam-North Korea Relations:Some Remarks over the Last 65 Years and Prospects

...the impact of internal and external factors. However, in the third period the Vietnam - North Korea relation was restored and showed good signs of a new period of development. The future prospect of the relation between the two countries is bright as both sides realize the fact that having good relation with each other will make good contribution to the development of both sides in the new context.

[학술논문] “My Turn to Speak”: Criticism Culture and the Multiple Uses of Class in Postwar North Korea

...the vexed and complex relationship between class, ideology and criticism in 1950s North Korea after the end of the Korean War. Although the KWP presented class as an unitary category, there were in fact many ways of writing about class in these years. Rather than use high-level KWP sources for a single ‘authoritative’ definition of class, this paper examines sources read in the local social...