Does the Birth of the Jangmadang Generation Foreshadow the End of the North Korean Regime?
Recently, most North Korean human rights organizations have paid a great deal of attention to North Korean young people commonly known as...
Eun A Park, NKR Intern
The Challenges of Trustpolitik in North-South Korean Relations
Ryu Gyung Ah Researcher Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies As a result of the conferences in the midst of the confrontation...
Ryu Kyung Ah, YINKS Researcher
Why the Preference Towards Third Countries?
Ryu Kyung Ah Researcher Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies As of December 2015, there were 28,795 North Korean defectors in South...
Ryu Kyung Ah, YINKS Researcher
Unravelling the Intentions Behind the 7th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea
By Maria Rosaria Coduti Intern at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) North Korea seems to be one of the main actors...
Maria Rosaria Coduti
The Power of Cultural Heritage and the Reunification of Korea
Choi Jae Duk Researcher Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies Typically, traditional Korean culture brings to mind beauty and...
Jae-deok Choi, YINKS Researcher
Defection and the Allegory of the Cave
By Somang Kim NKR Intern Without a doubt, “sanctions”, “famine”, “threats”, “nuclear”, “human rights”, etc. are the most ostensible and...
Somang Kim
2016 North Korea and the "New Normal"
This is the age of “New Normal”. Following the 2008 global economic crisis, the term “New Normal” has become an inveterate representation...
Jeong Dae Jin, YINKS Researcher
Transitzüge: The German Model in an Argument for Trans-Korean Railways
By NKR Intern Max Ernst A railway connection from Busan to Berlin, connecting South Korea’s southern port city with Europe via the...
Max Ernst, NKR Intern
Does North Korea have a Nuclear Bargaining Chip?
By NKR Intern Dwayne Melendez The recent alleged H-bomb test by North Korea has sparked yet another round of the usual speculation and...
Dwayne Melendez, NKR Intern
South Korea’s Strategic Options and Their Effects on Sino-Korean Relations
Bom Suk Kim Researcher, Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies Recently, the main diplomatic challenge for South Korean leaders is...
Kim Beom Seok, YINKS Researcher
