Art represents the times in various forms and creats tension with the reality by addressing the nature of problems in it. Then, what about North Korean art? Dr. Hong Ji-seok says that North Korean art has combined socialist content and national form, which led to the Juche (Self-Reliance) Realism, and given birth to the Joseon-pai...

[Project] introduces notable findings among contracted research projects submitted to the government and public institutions. This issue examines the contracted research report on science and technology research in North Korea, led by Hyunkyoo Choi, principal researcher at KISTI and chairman of the Unification Science and Technology Research Counci...

Global NK Interview features diverse South Korean researchers who study North Korea and their work to exhibit progress made by scholars in their research on North Korea. We meet Dr. Kim Kwang-woon, a Visiting Research Professor Emeritus at Kyungnam University for this issue. He has directed the publication of The Annals of North Joseon, which has r...

Global NK explores a myriad of notable Korean research that explores diverse perspectives on North Korea. For this purpose, we introduce an analysis on the cultural heritage policy of North Korea by Dr. Young-Sun Jeon, who has conducted diverse studies with a focus on North Korea’s culture and art beyond conventional research topics on North Kore...

Upon the U.S.-ROK summit, discussions and policy coordination between the U.S. and South Korea on resolving the North Korean nuclear issue and establishing permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula have become envisioned. In the joint statement, the leaders of South Korea and the U.S. expressed their goal to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue thr...

30 years have passed since North Korea’s then “nascent” nuclear program was identified as a “gravely serious threat.” Since 1991, its once budding nuclear program has amassed into a large-scale program, posing a grave challenge for the nuclear proliferation regime and regional security in Northeast Asia. In the following Global NK Comment...