[해외자료] Information and Its Consequences in North Korea

Citizens of free and open democracies are constantly surrounded by foreign media and outside ideas in their everyday lives. For people living in North Korea, the only legally available media and information is provided, approved, and curated by the regime. The control of information in North Korean society is total, Orwellian, and saturated with state propaganda and the ideology of the regime.

[현안분석] 개혁·개방 시 북한의 농업투자유치 전망과 협력 방안(1/2차년도)

...distribution system based on the existing state control into the market distribution system in North Korea. In addition, it should strive to ensure that North Korea can have the pricing system determined according to the demand and supply in the market. Second, it should strengthen promotion and education so that farmers can have sufficient information and experience in the process of privatization...

[학위논문] 김정은 시대의 산업기술 혁신정책과 현실 - 기술 수준과 토대, 현장 기술역량 -

...within the machinery industry, but also the advancement of the 'distributed control system' that utilizes the technology to monitor and control production processes or various types of industrial facilities. These accumulated operational experience and technology led to the full-scale spread of the distributed control system, which was commercialized as a general product through the national standardization...

[현안분석] 북한의 ICT 및 인프라 정책: ‘새 세기 산업혁명’, CNC화, 인력

... 등의 개념을 제시해 왔다. 김정일 시대부터 사용하기 시작한 ‘새 세기 산업혁명’을 북한은 “과학기술과 생산, 지식과 산업의 일체화를 새 세기의 요구에 맞게 높은 단계에서 실현해 과학기술의 힘으로 세계적인 경쟁력을 갖춘 경제 강국을 일떠세우는 우리식의 경제발전전략”이라고 설명하고 있다 (강진규 2019-05-03). 북한이 오랫동안 강조해 온 CNC (Computerized Numerical Control: 컴퓨터 수치 제어)는 컴퓨터를 통해 수치를 제어해 작동하는 공작기계를 의미하는 것으로, 최근에는 ‘온나라 CNC화’를 강조하며 지능화 공작기계를 통한 제조 정밀도 제고를 꾀하고 있다.

[현안분석] 북한이탈주민의 관점으로 본 북한 시민사회의 실태: 재구성된 시민사회지표(CSI)를 중심으로

...employed a qualitative content analysis method to analyze the interviews. The results show that the North Korean government’s control and regulation are acting as a strong impediment to the formation of civil society. However, coupled with the inflow of external information and the state’s failure to resolve the food crisis, trust in the authoritarian government has been declining, and changes...

[학술논문] The Policy of Enforced Isolation in North Korea and Albania: Its Role in Regime Survival and Regime Collapse

...contrast, North Koreans have been sealed off from the outside world. Most North Koreans were, unbeknownst even to themselves, living in an information-deprived world. If this type of domestic isolation is systematic on the part of the regime, North Koreans will only begin to realize their predicament and its source once they begin to receive unfiltered and authentic information from the outside world.