Jeong Dae Jin, YINKS Researcher
When Covid-19 Meets the Spirit of Baekdusan
Translated by NKR Intern Jihyun Lee Covid-19 is attacking the Korean Peninsula. North Korea is strategically responding with an...
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Chaewon Lim, NKR Intern
Chongryon’s Assimilation to Japan
Adapting to another culture which is outwardly hostile toward one’s home country is a complex and identity-conflicting task. Any and all...
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Benjamin Zimmer
Struggle for Power: A Theory on Post-Kim Jung-un North Korea
On May 3, Kim Jung-un made his first appearance in close to a month by attending a ceremony at the newly completed fertilizer factory in...
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S. Scholten, NKR Intern
The Management of North Korean Materials in South Korean Libraries
“Knowledge is power.” There are no truer words in academia. Yet what happens when knowledge is limited, not just to a select few, but...
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Luisa Kim, NKR Intern
Testimony and its Epistemological (Im)possibility
Picture Credit: Yonhap News, https://www.voakorea.com/a/2729885.html Resistance is a fact of history, and only in accepting this fact...
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Soyoung Kwon, YINKS Researcher
North Korea’s Regime Security and Coup Proofing Politics
North Korea’s society is a personalist dictatorship regime, in which the leader has access to unlimited discretionary power. In such a...
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Seung-chan Boo, YINKS Researcher
The No-Fly Zone and Its Effects on Surveillance
On September 19, 2018, North and South Korea adopted the ‘Agreement on the Implementation of the Historic Panmunjom Declaration in the...
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Alice Jaewon Lee, NKR Intern
Explaining the boom of leisure activities in North Korea
According to the Korea Development Institute, a recent boom of leisure facilities occurred in North Korea, ranging from the construction...
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Nattanun Somchoe, NKR Intern
Applying Lessons from Afghanistan to North Korea: Infrastructure Reconstruction
Image: US Department of Defense From Singapore to Hanoi, the only thing we received from the historic Trump-Kim summits was ambiguity....
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Jae-deok Choi, YINKS Researcher
Changes in inter-Korean Relations – South Korea, let’s head North!
A South Korean train passes over a cross-border railway bridge near the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Paju, north of Seoul on August 21,...
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