• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.111-117
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• 2013

This article evaluates the overall current disease burden of North Korea through the recent databases of international organizations. It is notable that North Korea as a nation is exhibiting a relatively low burden from deaths and that there is greater burden from deaths caused by non-communicable diseases than from those caused by communicable diseases and malnutrition. However, the absolute magnitude of problems from communicable diseases like TB and from child malnutrition, which will increase the disease burden in the future, remains great. North Korea, which needs to handle both communicable and nutritional conditions, and non-communicable diseases, whose burden is ever more increasing in the nation, can now be understood as a country with the 'double-burden' of disease.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.11-14
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• 2015

The Great Famine may have had a continued impact on the population structure of North Korea even after the crisis subsided ten years ago. However, there is a significant gap between what has been said about the country and what data indicates. This gap seems inevitable mainly because reliable data are seriously lacking and access is restricted for most scholars outside the country. Yet, it is only reasonable to question why most studies have failed to explain the causality between the Great Famine and accumulated changes in the population of North Korea. In this regard, a recent study conducted by Korean demographers (Jeon et al., 2015) have several implications on the importance of accurate and reliable data when the study involves such rare and scarce information. This paper explores the changing trends of the population structure in North Korea providing a review of recent studies on demographic issues associated with North Korea and offers suggestions on understanding the post-famine effect on the overall changes in the population of North Korea.

• Journal of Species Research
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2022

This study is based on crane fly specimens collected more than 80 years ago in 1938-1939 and preserved at the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. Despite many attempts with a variety of methods, no additional specimens of this genus were captured. This likely means that that this genus is extinct on the Korean Peninsula, or its distribution is restricted to the northern areas of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The genus Prionolabis Osten Sacken, 1860 with four species, one of them Prionolabis dis(Alexander, 1950) endemic to North Korea, was recorded by Ch. P. Alexander (Alexander, 1938, 1940, 1950). All succeeding papers listing these species were based on these original works without study based on actual specimens. For each species, we present general information on genus, redescriptions of species based on Korean specimens, illustrations of important taxonomical structures, elevation range, period of activity, habitat information, general distribution, and a distribution map for the Korean Peninsula.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제1호
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• pp.17-50
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• 1997

I study on the security organization for the chief of state in North and South Korea. The paper, purporting to analyze security system in comparative prospectives, comprise four chapters. Chapter I Which sets out purpose, scope and method, is followed by Chapter II , dealing largely with the power structure on The Socialist Constitution of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the protection organization and security activities for the chief of state in North Korea. Chapter III concerns the security environment - terrorist groups, firearms, explosives, suspects, movements of hostile countries and orthers - and the protection organization on The Presidential Security Service for the president in South Korea, culminating in projection of certain problem area. It is followed by concluding observation made in Chapter IV. To be operated security systems effectively, these need to be regulated according to a protective scale, function, authority of a existing.

• 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.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.15-18
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• 2015

Reunification, (considered a 'bonanza'), is often expected to bring economic and social benefits as well as solutions to the population aging problem; consequently, the study on the population structure of North Korea is salient. This paper reviews and talks on the North Korean population and implications. In view of reliability and consistency, the North Korean population appears at an explicit change compared to the past, and shows significant differences from the South, implying that it needs significant resources to integrate during reunification. Therefore, it is opportune to discuss the North Korean population prior to the clamor for the reunification.

• 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.

• 대한치과의사협회지
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• 제53권10호
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• pp.712-725
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• 2015

The clinical dentistry system and research tendency of dentistry in North Korea has a difference with South Korea. In North Korea, preventive dentistry has been developed, and government of North Korea clame a free medical service to all the people. And there are tendency that Korean medicine(Oriental medicine) is applied to clinical dentistry in North Korea. Research tendency of dentistry in North Korea have a difference from South Korea. Articles of dentistry in North Korea have some freatures. Terminology of dentistry is writtened in original Korean developed uniquely in North Korea. Recent articles of dentistry in North Korea have a reference from english articles, and it is different that reference articles in the past were from Chinese or Russian articles. In order to get ready for the United Korea, we need to know the feature of dentistry in North Korea, and increase an academic exchange between South and North Korea.

• 식물분류학회지
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.65-82
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• 2016

서울대학교 수우표본관에서 완성한 KPF(Korean Peninsula Flora Database) 데이터베이스에서는 1850년부터 1945년까지 한반도에서 채집된 65,000개의 관속식물의 기록물을 관리하고 있다. 이 중 북한에서 채집된 기록은 33,000개인데 이 중 13%에 해당되는 4,287개가 1909년부터 1942년에 걸쳐 5명의 일본인(노무라, 오쿠야마, 후루미, 이마이, 사이토)과 1명의 미국인(밀즈)에 의해 채집되었다. 코마로프(Komarov, V.L), 나카이(Nakai, T) 이후 3번째로 많은 북한에서 채집된 표본이다. 이런 채집과 관련된 보고서는 지명사전으로 기존에 일부 발표하였지만, 본 논문에서는 보다 더 자세한 일정과 채집물에 대해 기록하였다. 사이토가 가장 많은 1,730개 표본을 채집하였고 밀즈, 노무라, 오쿠야마, 후루미, 이마이 순서로 1,067, 532, 510, 368, 370개의 표본을 채집하였다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 2th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.229-238
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• 2007

This paper presents a study on construction safety in the People Democratic Republic of Laos (PDRL). Fifty workers experienced certain injuries in their construction sites and 15 top managers were interviewed in twenty-six construction projects in Vientiane, the capital of PDRL. Research results show that stepping on and/or striking against objects (48%), struck by falling objects (24%), falling of persons (12%) are major types of construction injuries. The paper stresses that the ignorance of top managers about their crucial role in safety improvement, using safety incentive to raise safety performance, lack of thorough understanding about benefit from labor safety performance, and the willingness to cut off safety performance expenditures is considered as obstructions of safety improvement programs. The survey indicates that physical working conditions, relationship among workers, foremen behaviors and the monthly wage were influencing factors to worker's job satisfaction. The study also highlights afternoon as dominant time that led to a large number of injuries.