• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.135-139
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• 2014

A nationwide nutrition survey began when the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) requested assistance from international relief organizations in 1997 due to flooding in 1995-1996, followed by the worsening food shortage peak in 1997. According to reported data for the 15 years since the active intervention and assistance from international societies, the malnutrition and mortality rates of children in the DPRK have improved. However, the prevalence of the stunting reported in the latest 2012 report is 27.9%, which is still a moderate-severe level, and worrisome in terms of international standards. In particular, the prevalence in Ryangangdo, which is regarded as the worst region in the DPRK, is 39.6%, which is a very high level of stunting. To alleviate such regional deviation will be a major task for future assistance. In addition, one cannot emphasize too highly the importance of early nutritional assistance for pregnant women and infants, considering that the recovery from stunted growth is low after two years of age, and the aftereffects would continue for the rest of their lives.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2015

The re-unification of the two Koreas is seen as a potential solution to the aging problem and low fertility, along with the increase in the old population structure of the Republic of Korea. Population structure is an indicator of national competitiveness or growth, but little is known officially about the populations of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Understanding the population structure of the DPRK is important to prepare for re-unification and estimate the socio-economic costs of national welfare under a re-unified Korea. In this paper, we assess reliability of the two modern national censuses of DPRK and use the limited resources available to reconstruct the intercensal populations between these two censuses. Excess deaths from the 1995 famine are estimated at 489,972 to 574,306 and are close to the estimates of Goodkind et al. (2011) and the reconstructed populations in the of DPRK implies a big difference between two Koreas.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.118-126
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• 2013

We investigated the major trends in health aid financing in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) by identifying the primary donor organizations and examining several data sources to track overall health aid trends. We collected gross disbursements from bilateral donor countries and international organizations toward the DPRK according to specific health sectors by using the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development creditor reporting system database and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs financial tracking service database. We analyzed sources of health aid to the DPRK from the Republic of Korea (ROK) using the official records from the ROK's Ministry of Unification. We identified the ROK, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) as the major donor entities not only according to their level of health aid expenditures but also their growing roles within the health sector of the DPRK. We found that health aid from the ROK is comprised of funding from the Inter-Korean Cooperation Fund, private organizations, local governments, and South Korean branches of international organizations such as WHO and UNICEF. We also distinguished medical equipment aid from developmental aid to show that the majority of health aid from the ROK was developmental aid. This study highlights the valuable role of the ROK in the flow of health aid to the DPRK, especially in light of the DPRK's precarious international status. Although global health aid from many international organizations has decreased, organizations such as GFATM and UNFPA continue to maintain their focus on reproductive health and infectious diseases.

• 에너지공학
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.63-67
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• 2018

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or the DPRK, is one of the poorest country in world facing chronic economic, energy and food security issues. Prolonged improper management of economic and natural resources has led to extreme poverty, malnutrition and critically vulnerability to nature's forces. Presistent deforestation and forest degradation in the DPRK has national and global consequences which has attracted attention from international community, whose offering financial and technical assistance for targeted interventions. Through REDD+ programs, the DPRK has the opportunity to establish its credentials as a responsible nation while improving the quality of life of its population. This study offers an enabling context under which suitable climate change action related to forestry can be identified and implemented in the DPRK.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.3-30
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• 2010

왜 국가들은 협력과 갈등을 반복할까? 본 연구의 목적은 강대국인 EU(서유럽/동유럽)와 약소국인 북한 간 비대칭적 갈등과 협력이 "언제" 그리고 "어떻게", 다시 말해서 어떤 요인들에 의해 결정되었는지 그 과정을 분석한 후, 파워의 비대칭적인 강대국과 약소국 간 협력과 갈등 과정의 결정요인을 분석하는 데 있다. 특히 "변화"와 "연속성"의 측면에서 EU와 북한 간 관계에 대한 총체적이고 체계적인 연구를 위해서는 약자인 북한과 강자인 EU가 "언제" 그리고 "어떻게" 갈등과 협력 과정을 겪는지 그 결정요인을 찾는 데 초점을 맞춘다.

• 환경정책연구
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.123-148
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• 2012

북한의 산림황폐화는 지난 1980년대 중반부터 가속화되어 1990년대 극심한 경제난을 겪은 이후 현재까지 계속되고 있다. 북한은 이러한 산림황폐화에 대응하여 산림복원 및 녹화계획을 수립하여 추진해왔으나 정책 실행과정 및 결과에 관한 내용을 공개하지 않고 있다. 로동신문은 국내에서 접근이 가능한 북한 자료로서 당 기관지이므로 북한 정부가 강조하는 정책을 담고 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 북한의 대표적 미디어인 로동신문에 실린 산림관련 기사를 조사함으로써 북한 산림정책을 파악하고자 하였다. 내용분석법을 활용하여 1990년부터 2011년까지 표제에 '산림' 또는 '림산'을 포함한 499개 산림관련 기사를 분석하였다. 기사를 통해 보도된 국가산림계획 및 정책의 주요 내용을 파악하고, 정책수단이론에 근거하여 산림보호 및 녹화를 위한 규제적, 경제적, 정보적 정책수단에 관한 보도 내용을 살펴보았다. 분석결과, 로동신문은 산림조성, 산림경영, 국토관리, 산림보호에 대한 국가 산림계획 및 정책을 보도하였다. 북한 산림정책의 방향은 1990년대 산림 이용 중심에서 2000년대 산림보호와 관리로 변하였다. 로동신문은 경제적, 사회적 유인 수단보다는 규제적 수단과 교육 및 훈련 중심의 정보적 수단에 관한 내용을 더 많이 보도하고 있었다. 특히 김일성과 김정일의 교시 및 지적을 통해 산림사업의 중요성을 강조하고, 산림 보호 및 녹화활동을 애국활동으로 묘사하였다. 산림조성 및 보호를 위한 다양한 선전, 선동 활동이 보도되었고, 최고 지도자로부터의 포상 및 모범 업적에 대한 공로 평가도 일부 보도되었다. 이와 같은 결과는 로동신문이 북한 정부의 산림정책을 드러내고 선전, 선동하기 위한 수단으로 활용되고 있음을 증명한다.

• 의학교육논단
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.21-25
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• 2016

The government of South Korea and its medical personnel must make a way by which health professionals who have escaped from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) can play a positive and practical role in unification and south-north medical unification while south-north authority talks on DPRK public health and medicine manpower development are not going smoothly. Medical personnel escaped from the DPRK have to be recruited for the interviewer of the national examination, to improve the accuracy of national examination interviews. For those medical professionals who have escaped from the DPRK with 6 years' medical college education, but failed the interview on the national examination, we propose here a course of 3.6 months for them to have a right to apply the Korean Medical Licensing Examinations (KMLE). We also propose that medical professionals who have escaped from the DPRK who have graduated from a 6-year medical college in the DPRK and who are medical doctors over the fifth grade or with more than 6 years of experience can be qualified as unification medical doctors and be exempted from the KMLE, getting the right to go directly into an internship and residency. They should be permitted to work in manpower development projects for the health professions. They should also be given opportunities such as to become psychiatrists who treat the mental illness of persons escaped from the DPRK and people from North Korea after unification. Medical students in South Korea should earn college credits on the topic of medical unification and not only students, but all South Korean medical personnel, should prepare for north-south medical unification with an open mind. A way for each medical college to participate in DPRK manpower development for the health professions through a memorandum of understanding between the medical colleges of the south and north.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.558-564
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• 2004

한국과 북한의 초등학교와 중등학교 과학 교과서의 학습내용을 TIMSS의 분석틀에 따라 비교하고 그 연계성을 조사하였다. 분석 결과 한국과 북한의 과학 교과서 내용은 TIMSS 지구과학 영영 내용 분석틀의 학습요소들을 상당히 많이 공통적으로 다루고 있으나 그 내용의 수준과 범위는 한국의 교과서가 북한의 교과서보다 탐구적이고 정량적으로 기술되어 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 TIMSS의 지구과학 영역 내용 분석틀의 내용요소 총 70개 중에서 한국은 74.4%에 해당하는 52개의 내용요소가, 북한은 67.1%에 해당하는 47개의 내용요소가 초 ${\cdot}$ 중등학교에 각각 반영되어 있고, 학교급간 관련 정도는 한국의 경우 초등학교와 중등학교 간의 관련성이 높은 반면에 북한은 고등학교 내에서의 관련성이 더 높게 나타났다. 한국과 북한의 과학 교과서 내용요소의 연계성 유형은 한국의 경우 13.4%가 중복, 77.0%가 연계, 9.6 %가 격차를 보였다. 그리고 북한은 14.9%가 중복, 63.8%가 연계, 21.3%가 격차를 보였다. 이로써 한국의 과학 교과서의 내용이 북한에 비해 보다 탐구적이고 정량적으로 기술되어 있으며, TIMSS의 지구과학 내용요소가 보다 많이 반영되어 있고, 내용(개념)의 연계가 보다 잘 이루어져 있음이 밝혀졌다.

• Journal of Species Research
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.33-44
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• 2015

A total of 34 species belonging to 11 families and 21 genera in the Order Mestostigmata are reported from the Korean Peninsula, of which 20/34 species are new for the fauna of the Korean Peninsula (Lasioseius furcisetus Athias-Henriot, 1959, Cheiroseius nepalensis Evans & Hyatt, 1960, Cheiroseius curtipes (Halbert, 1923), Hypoaspis imitatus Reitblat, 1963, Hypoaspis presternalis Willmann, 1949, Hypoaspis kargi Costa, 1968, Pseudoparasitus placentulus (Berlese, 1887), Gamasiphis novipulchellus Ma & Yin, 1998, Parholaspulus bregetovaae Alexandrov, 1965, Parholaspulus paradichaetes Petrova, 1967, Neparholaspis arcuatus Petrova, 1977, Neparholaspus simplex Evans, 1956, Parholaspulus excentricus Petrova, 1967, Gamasholapis asiaticus Petrova, 1967, Veigaia carpillaris Tseng, 1994, Veigaia anmashanensis Tseng, 1994, Leptogamasus bicorniger Witalinski, 1977, Neogamasus insignis (Holzman, 1969), Iphidinychus kakumeiensis Hiramatsu & Hirschmann, 1992, Trigonuropoda sanguinea Hirschmann & Hiramatsu, 1977). A total of 19 of the previously unreported species were collected in soil samples from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), while 13 species were collected from soil samples from the Republic of Korea (ROK). Only two species were found in both the DPRK and the ROK. Illustrations and short descriptions for previously unreported species provided.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.275-284
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• 2017

The food situation in North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK) has been in difficulty situation because of a shortage of energy, and of raw materials such as fertilizer and agricultural chemicals. The international agricultural aid programs can alleviate some difficulties in the agricultural areas, but the policies and measures in North Korea can not help difficulties in the agriculture due to the institutional obstacles enforced by DPRK. The arable area of DPRK is approximately $20,000km^2$, of which $14,000km^2$ is well for cereal cultivation. Fertilizer supplies in recent years between 700,000 and 750,000 tons annually were less than 50% of the normal requirement. Also, North Korea strongly needed to inject phosphorus fertilizer and lime to increase the fertility. Soil degradation in DPRK was characterized by physical and chemical changes caused by rapid loss of clay particles and organic matter. Intensive ploughing and tilling to grow crops may lead to massive soil degradation and declining yields. Although farmers in the DPRK have faced numerous challenges, not least of which are soil erosion, scarce inputs and extreme weather like drought, flooding and cold spells. Therefore farmers should be encouraged to adopt more environmentally sound cropping practices, to access quality seeds and planting materials and to reduce losses after the harvest.