Scientific analysis and inter-Korean cooperation are needed to reduce North Korea’s environmental pollution and deforestation. Many efforts to reduce North Korea’s environmental issue have a fundamental weakness because they are generally influenced by internal and political conditions. To overcome such a weakness, two approaches may be effective; the first is to use new technology such as Google Earth and the second is to build collaborative governance that is invulnerable to political conditions. This study focuses on building collaborative governance models based on Google Earth data investigation, a previous research’s release of Google Earth database, and literature review of North Korea’s environmental issues. This research’s results are as follows. First, North Korea’s industrial regions suffer from environmental pollution and many other regions experience severe deforestation according to Google Earth-based spatial images. Second, we can discern environmental pollution such as air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, and deforestation using Google Earth-based spatial image. In reality, we are able to identify deforestation and partially soil pollution with Google Earth-based spatial image. Third, there are different environmental problems among North Korea’s local regions. South Korea has to prepare and plan various collaborative governance models depending on North Korea’s local needs on environmental problems.

The Ministry of Unification has published the North's social and economic indicators about 'North Main statistical indicators' every years. However, "North Main Statistical Indicators" does not reflect the status and the level of North Korean infrastructure. The purpose of this study is to survey maintenance status and level of North Korean infrastructure, and to propose a regional assessment results.

Recent development in North Korea has heighted the security situation in Northeast Asia region. Also, the discussion and interest relation to reunification of the government and academia including korean people have been actively developed. Therefore, this study should asserts the needs and plan of infrastructure improvement in the Korean Peninsula. Accordingly, The purpose of this study is as follows; First, it investigate the current status for the civil structures facility including the main infrastructures of North Korea. Second, it estimate on the risk and technology level of Infrastructure Based on questionnaire and interview refugees of North Korea.

My Own Fortune is a popular folktale which is widely observed and documented throughout the Korean Peninsula before the division. The tale continues to be told from generations to generations in South Korea. A resembling tale can be found in The Collection of Chosun Folktales under the title Father and the Three Daughters. This tale’s format very closely resembles that of My Own Fortune, hence making it a valuable material when comparing tales in South and North Korea. My Own Fortune and Father and the Three Daughters both begin with a very similar narrative. The father in both tales asks a question “On whose fortune do you live well?” wishing to confirm that his daughters love him and respect his authority as the leader of the family. The two stories begin to differ as his third and the youngest daughter in each story answers his question identically but with different intentions. From this point in the story the two tales diverge. My Own Fortune is a story of an independent woman standing alone from her parents and building her own success, whereas Father and the Three Daughters is about a very filial woman achieving her dream when her father eventually acknowledges her love of the Parent. North Korea’s Father and the Three Daughters focus on the value of family and offspring’s filial duty. In contrast, My Own Fortune depicts an independent woman. Despite the difference, the two tales follow same story format, as Father and the Three Daughters adopted the format of My Own Fortune, which is one of the traditional folk tale formats in Korea. North Korea regime probably did adopt the format of My Own Fortune for Father and the Three Daughters because inhabitants in the Korean Peninsula have long enjoyed the stories of the like of My Own Fortune. For the regime to utilize Father and the Three Daughters as means to reform people, the regime would probably have thought that adopting popular and widely accepted stories would be more beneficial. It is probable that Father and the Three Daughters is derived from My Own Fortune, the story generally enjoyed by Koreans before the division. Findings of common folktales culture in South and North Korea, despite the two nations' long separation, suggest that literary communication between the countries, based on common grounds, is possible. But for such communication to happen, understanding of both the common and the different must be preceded. Communication can be defined as the steps of admitting and attempting to understand the difference between the parties. It is because changeability of the relationship based on differences may be the most accurate solution to soften current relationship of two Koreas which is solidifying its exclusivity and hostility. The author wishes that his analysis of My Own Fortune and Father and the Three Daughters to be a humble work to contribute to such communication that embraces both the common and the different.

North Korean tale Ch’ŏngryongŭi poŭnn which was covered in this article is a representative folktale which was modified based on Juche Ideology. It is identical with Chinegaksi which is a representative folktale in the Korean penisula except for the ending part. The difference in the ending is whether the fortune given to the male protagonist is individual or collective in its nature. This difference seems to be due to modification with the influence of collective morality and Juche ideology of North Korea. To assess the literary value of the modified narrative, this article learned about the identity and value of this tale based on the pre-division era records. And by comparing how modern tales in South and North Korea from a similar period and status accept archetype of this tale, this article aimed to analyze the narrative value of this tale. North Korean tale Ch’ŏngryongŭi poŭnn will be regarded as an important material to understand the social culture of North Korea and an old story with the message of social integration in the future society of the unified Korean peninsula. This tale is a story about two different beings trusting each other and working toward a better future. In other words, it is a story about the value of “symbiosis” being realized in the dimension of “group.” Despite the modification intention behind this literature which is based on the North Korean view of history, this tale is an important literary work that shows what kind of life “we” as a group should pursue in a modern society filled with suspicion and fear.

Recent development in North Korea has heighted the security situation in Northeast Asia region. Also, the discussion and interest relation to reunification of the government and academia including korean people have been actively developed. Therefore, this study should asserts the needs and plan of infrastructure improvement in the Korean Peninsula. Accordingly, The purpose of this study is as follows; First, it investigate the current status for the civil structures facility including the main SOC of North Korea. Second, it estimate on the development value and fragility level of Infrastructure Based on questionnaire and interview refugees of North Korea.

Arirang of North Korea is a major performance of the country, known externally in the form of Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance. It is unprecedented for a large-scale performance, as North Korea's Arirang, to be staged regularly for several years. The performance started in 2002, as a celebration commemorating the 90th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-Sŏng. When it was first being prepared, the title of the performance was The Song of the First Sun. It is quite significant that North Korea changed the name of the performance from The Song of the First Sun, which symbolizes Kim Il-Sŏng, to Arirang, which symbolizes the sentiments of the Korean people. It is unknown when the folksong 'Arirang' started to be sung, however, it is clearly a song that reflects the age-old sentiments of the Korean people. After the song was played when athletes of the two Koreas made their joint entrance during the Sydney Olympics in September 2000, it became symbolic of the Korean people together with the Peninsula Flag, and was used whenever there was a joint entrance of North and South athletes or joint cheering of the crowds. While there are many interpretations on the origins of Arirang, it is considered, in North Korea, to be a song with nationalistic sentiments and a sense of resistance of the people. The Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance Arirang got its motif from the song 'Arirang', which symbolizes the hardships of the Korean people. However, Arirang suggests that North Koreans should not simply stop at expressing sorrowful sentiments of the folksong they must venture onto the road toward a Powerful Great Nation. The performance contains the message that, just as the Korean people had overcome hardships and suffering by singing the 'Arirang' together, the difficulties faced by the North Korean regime should also be surmounted through Arirang. At the time the performance Arirang was staged, there were many artistic works including popular songs, novels and poems being created with the theme of 'Powerful and Prosperous Revival', which the essence of Arirang. At the same time, the performance contains the discourses of 'Arirang People' and 'People of the Sun'. North Korea's full-fledged promotion of the concept of the 'Arirang People' deviates from its previous perspective of considering North Koreans and South Koreans to be the one ethnic group. In other words, it was the starting point of North Korea strengthening a discriminatory from of nationalism, moving away from its previous perspective that the people of both Koreas constituted a single ethnic group. The two Koreas were considered to be of the same ethnicity before, but now, North Korea is trying to articulate, through Arirang, its idea that 'South Korean society has become multi-ethnic and lost its ethnic purity, so ethnic purity lies with the North Korean people (the Kim Il-Sŏng people)'.

북한의 대규모 자연재난은 홍수와 태풍 그리고 집중호우로 인한 수해피해가 대부분이며 이러한 피해는 1990년대 중반부 터 해마다 북한의 경제난을 악화시키고 있다. 북한 당국도 수해피해의 심각성을 인식하여, 1990년대 말부터 하천정리, 농경지 복구, 토지정리사업, 조림사업 등을 실시하였으나, 계속되는 수해피해를 막지 못하고 있다. 본 연구는 상습적으로 발생하는 북한의 홍수피해에 대한 위험도를 산정하기 위해 일반적인 위험도 평가과정은 동일하게 유지하되 대외적으로 수문자료 취득이 힘들고 지형자료가 공개되지 않은 미계측지역이라는 유역특성을 반영하여 강우-유출에 대한 모의를 추가적으로 실시하였다. 또한, 위험도 평가는 국제기구(IPCC)의 기준에 따라 홍수에 대한 위험성과 노출성, 취약성 인자들 을 선정하여 홍수 위험도를 판단하였다.

This study addresses the phenomenon of foundational meta-narratives in North Korea’s discourses. Meta-narratives are understood here as a totalizing cultural narrative schema which orders and explains knowledge and experience. On the national level, meta-narratives refer to those over-arching, all-encompassing myths and stories that contain the historical knowledge of a country’s foundational history. This paper discusses three particularly important meta-narratives permeating North Korea’s contemporary political and cultural discourses: the meta-narrative of national ruin, of (Kim Il Sung’s) armed resistance and of constant threat of external aggression. Providing both positive and negative frames of reference, the study shows how these meta-narratives are strategically employed in contemporary discourses as ‘historical contextualizations’ in which particular interpretations of the past are used as arguments for political actions in the present, and, with recourse to history, produce a normative frame for evaluating contemporary events and actions. At the same time, the historical references and myths contained in those meta-narratives play an important role in establishing identity and fostering integration, for they level differences within the North Korean community and thus construct sameness and communality.

These days, animal infectious disease such as AI(Avian Influenza) and FMD(Foot-and-Mouth Disease) breaks out, and increase the number of its occurrence. Offered in "An animal disease prevention" of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry that to do killed caused livestock order to prevent diffuse pollution of the epidemic when an animal disease has happened. Accordingly, in Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry set up the "Emergency Action Guide", it suggests the emergency cation, disposal method(stamping out, incineration, burying method), disposal method of livestock excretions in the area of origin. Also, the department of the environment makes the livestock burial regional environmental research guidelines, it order to investigate the surround environment, water quality in monitoring well, environment management and so on. In korea, this was the first time confirmed that the foot-and-mouth disease occurred in 1934. The leachate buried underground of livestock is organic waste water and it has been arranged nutrient salts such as nitrogen, phosphorus. So, there is a possibility that can lead to a variety of environmental problems when it can result in river pollution, ground water pollution and soil pollution. Look at domestic and foreign research trend leachate behavior such as contamination analysis through physicochemical properties or physicochemical analysis of the leachate components have been identified and carried out. Because of the leak of the leachate, there is a possibility about the around soil pollution. Thus, we studied that investigation of soil texture around livestock burial site in chung-buk north area of korea. From the result, surface soil was loam and subsoil was clay loam soil in 35% of survey site. In the future, this result will be a important basis data for correlation of leachate leak and consequential soil texture.

Centennial- to millennial-scale climate change since the last glacial needs to be revealed to improve the overall predictability of future environmental change. Special attention has been paid to short-term climate oscillations because they usually occurred rapidly enough to cause noticeable change in the average expected lifespan of human. Recently, short-term climate change during the late last glacial was successfully reconstructed from Hanon maar paleolake in Jeju island. In this study, centennial- to millennial-scale climate signals transferred via atmospheric teleconnection were detected for the first time in South Korea. Possible future presence of abrupt climate shifts such as Younger Dryas or 8.2 ka event would not seriously influence the Korean peninsula, especially not Jeju island, due to the Kuroshio warm currents. The study of climate variabilities in Korea could provide essential paleoclimatic information for the entire East Asian monsoon region since the climate of the Korean peninsula is driven significantly by coupled land-atmosphere-ocean dynamics.

본 연구에서는 북한의 발전(發電) 수자원 가능량을 조사하기 위해 포장수력 이론을 적용하였다. 발전수자원 가능량이라 함은 발전을 할 수 있는 수자원의 양을 뜻하며, 유역의 수자원을 효율적으로 사용할 수 있는 지점에 댐을 건설하기 위해 조사한다. 포장수력은 전원개발의 대상이되는 수력자원의 크기를 의미하며 수력에너지의 부존특성 개발의 방식 등을 감안하여 이론포장수력, 기술적 포장수력, 경제적 포장수력 등 3가지 유형으로 구분되나 본 연구에서는 북한의 자료의 한계로 인해 이론포장수력조사 방법에 대해서만 산정하였다. 이론포장수력이란 높은 곳에서 강하한 강수가 유역을 따라 해면까지 유하하는 데서 얻을 수 있다고 보는 유수의 잠재적 에너지로서 총 낙차와 강수량의 상승적 비례관계에 따라 산정한다. 북한의 압록강, 두만강 등 총 7개의 유역에 대해서 북한의 이론포장수력을 산정하였다. 이를 위해 북한의 27개의 강우관측소 자료를 이용해 유역별 강수량을 산정하였고 북한의 고도별 면적 강수량을 산정하기 위해 MODIS에서 제공하고 있는 Aster Gdem에서 북한 지역의 DEM을 추출하여 본 연구에 이용하였다. 이론포장수력 산정 결과 압록강유역이 7562.2×10³KW으로 가장 높았으며, 상대적으로 높은 표고에 위치한 압록강과 두만강에서 높게 산정되었다. 북한의 발전 수자원 가능량을 조사함으로써 유역의 수자원을 효율적으로 사용할 수 있는 지점을 파악할 수 있으며, 수자원의 장래 개발 가능성을 파악하고 그 개발을 촉진시키는 데에 지침이 되는 기본 자료로서 활용이 가능할 것으로 예상 된다.

본 연구에서는 VfloTM을 이용하여 북한의 미계측지역에 대한 매개변수 설정 및 일관적인 분포형 강우적용을 통해 실강우 특성을 반영한 침수분석 결과를 도출한다. 연구대상은 임진강 수계로 유역면적의 2/3가 한 지역에 포함이 되며 사실상 미계측지역으로 분류된다. 위 수계의 수문자료가 거의 없어 매개변수 보정 및 검정할 자료가 사실상 없으므로 분석하는 주체에 따라 강우-유출모형 구축에 있어 차이가 발생하므로 홍수량 산정 절차 및 매개변수 결정에 대한 표준화가 필요하다. 분포형 강우는 광덕산 레이더의 Long-ranged Radar(반경 480 ㎞)를 이용하여 회령, 선봉 및 일부 지역을 제외한 북한 수계 전역에 걸쳐 분포형 강우를 본 원에서 생산하고 있으며 분포형 모델을 이용하여 강우사상별 북한 지역의 침수현황을 도출하는 프로세스를 구축하였다. 또한, 기연구된 북한의 확률강우량도를 토대로 각 빈도별 침수현황을 도출하였으며 북한 내 발생하는 홍수에 대해 개략적인 침수현황 제시가 가능하다. 위 연구를 토대로 통일 대비 북한의 홍수 재난 현황 및 이에 대한 대처 자료로써 효용이 있을 것으로 판단이 되며 지속적인 모니터링을 통해 북한 재난 DB를 구축해 나갈 것이다.

북한의 대규모 자연재난은 홍수와 태풍 그리고 집중호우로 인한 수해피해가 대부분이며 이러한 피해는 1990년대 중반부터 해마다 북한의 경제난을 악화시키고 있다. 특히, 식량난과 에너지난으로 인한 무분별한 국토개발 및 산림훼손으로 1995년부터 집중호우, 태풍 등의 수해피해에 상습적으로 시달리고 있다. 전문가들은 지난 15년간 북한의 홍수를 검토하여 홍수 초래 영향변수로 ‘강우집중도’와 ‘집중호우 지역’으로 판단하고 있으며, 홍수피해 가중 요인을 ‘발생시기’와 ‘피해규모’로 정하였다. 본 연구에서는 북한 홍수 모니터링 우선지역 선정을 위해 홍수 초래 영향변수인 ‘강우집중도’와 ‘집중호우 지역’은 우심지에 해당하는 지역의 월평균강우량의 크기와 일최대강우량, 집중호우 발생빈도가 큰 기상관측소 지점으로 선별하였고, 홍수피해 가중 요인인 ‘발생시기’와 ‘기반시설 피해정도’의 경우 집중호우 발생 빈도가 큰 개월과 북한의 주요 홍수피해 당시 피해보도를 기반으로 등급 점수를 부여하여 우선지역을 구분하였다. 홍수 초래 영향변수와 홍수피해 가중 요인으로 북한의 홍수 모니터링 우선지역을 행정구역별로 선정하면 홍수 초래 영향변수에 의한 모니터링 우선순위 지역은 강원도와 개성시이며, 홍수피해 가중 요인에 의한 모니터링 우선지역은 황해도, 평안남도, 강원도, 함경남도가 된다. 하지만, 피해규모의 경우 주요 피해가 발생한 행정구역의 피해를 통합하여 보도한 내용이므로 각 행정구역별 피해규모의 확인은 힘들기 때문에 모니터링 우선지역의 선정에 있어서는 홍수 초래 영향변수로 분석한 우선순위를 고려하고 홍수피해 가중 요인은 참고로 활용하는 것이 타당할 것이다.

본 연구에서는 통일 후 북한의 사회기반시설의 건설이 필수적임에 따라 수자원개발사업의 기초자 료를 구축하기 위해 북한의 수자원 현황에 대해 분석하였다. 북한의 수자원 개발계획은 국토계획에 포함되어 ‘자연개조사업’으로 규정하여 수립하고 있다. 개발 계획 시 물의 종합적 이용을 강조하고 있으며, 이를 위해 저수지를 건설해 물을 저장하고 그 저수지를 양어사업에 사용하고 또한 전력까지 생산하는 종합적 이용을 하고 자 한다. 남한의 기상청과 같은 기상수문국을 설치하여 기상관측 및 유량 관측을 실시하고 있다. 하지만 기상관측의 경우 분석기술 및 기기장비들이 현대화, 과학화가 되지못한 실정이다. 또한 북한에서는 유량관측에 대한 자료는 공개되어 있지 않고 하천법에 기상수문국이 하천의 흐름량과 장마철 홍수관리에 대한 내용을 확인할 수 있었다. 북한의 연평균 강수량은 919.7mm이며, 남한의 연평균 강수량 1307.7mm의 70.3% 수준이며, 북한의 강우관측소 27개 지점을 티센법을 적용해 압록강, 두만강, 대동강 등 총 8개의 유역에 대해 유역별 월평균 및 연평균 강수량을 산정하였다. 북한의 수자원 현황을 파악하는 것은 통일 후 북한의 수자원 개발사업을 위해서 필요할 뿐만 아니라 한반도 전역의 수자원 현황을 파악함으로써 우리나라의 기후변화 대비 및 이.치수 관리에도 도움이 될 것이다.

Natural environmental protection system in North Korea is rarely understood mainly because of lack of information in scientific and legislative fields. Legislation is very important to achieve goal for protected areas, which are described in "Natural Protected Area Law(NPAL)". Cabinet of North Korea has authorities to lead the Central Agency for Land and Environment Conservation(CALEC). Designation and managements of natural protected areas are regarded as CALEC and local governments responsibilities. There are many differences between South and North Korea. Especially legislation system has many differences. North Korea's Labor Party is superior to the Government and Labor Party's order has at least the same authority to regulate and manage the national policy and means. With NPAL, CALEC organizes the national plan for natural protected area and regulate the activities of the Agencies for Land and Environment Conservation in the aspects of action plan, budget and other resources. For the reunification in the future, legislation system of North Korea should be understood.

본 연구에서는 가뭄지수를 이용하여 북한지역의 가뭄분석을 수행하였다. 분석 대상지점으로는 평양 등 27개 지점을 선정하였으며, 월 강수량 및 평균기온 자료를 수집하여 분석에 이용하였다. 가뭄분석을 위한 가뭄지수로는 SC-PDSI를 이용하였으며, 27개 지점별로 1984~2013년(30년)의 월 단위 가뭄지수를 산정하였다. 가뭄지수를 이용하여 과거 가뭄에 대해 검토한 결과, 대부분의 지점에서 2000년대 초반과 중반에 심각한 가뭄이 발생하였음을 확인할 수 있었다. 북한의 과거 가뭄사상에 대한 정량적 평가를 위해 6개 지점(평양, 함흥, 청진, 원산, 해주, 신의주)을 대상으로 지속기간별 최대 가뭄심도 자료계열을 구성하였으며, 빈도분석을 통해 지점별 가뭄심도-지속기간-재현기간(Severity-Duration-Frequency, SDF) 곡선을 유도하였다. 6개 지점의 과거 주요 가뭄사상을 추출한 후 SDF 곡선을 이용하여 각 사상별 재현기간을 추정한 결과, 2000년대 초반과 중반에 발생했던 가뭄은 최대 20~50년의 재현기간을 갖는 가뭄사상인 것으로 나타났다.

When relations improve between North and South Korea, there will be demand for North Korean edible plants because of the low labor cost and similar environmental conditions. However, there is no reliable information about trace elements, metals, and metalloids in edible plants from North Korea. Selenium (Se) and germanium (Ge) have positive effects on basic human health and are therapeutical in diverse illnesses. Metal and metalloid (Cd, Pb) poisoning, on the other hand, can cause many health problems. Plants collected from North Korea had higher selenium content than those from South Korea. Although none of the collected species exceeded the permissible levels of cadmium and lead, their content in plants was significantly higher in North Korea than in South Korea. The high metal contents in plants collected from North Korea may be associated with the soil physicochemical properties as well as the accumulated amounts of elements in the soil.

Exserohilum turcicum is considered serious destructive disease of maize (Zea mays L.) in North Korea. This study aimed to understand genetic inheritance and combining ability of newly bred lines of maize tolerant to E. turcicum by diallel crosses. Three diallel sets for two different ecological regions and one agronomic trait; eastern (E), northern (N) and stay green (SG) involving 29 inbred lines were tested in eight locations of 2000 and 2001. E. turcicum infections were under natural conditions, respectively. Lines used were selected for high yield potential in test crosses with good agronomic traits and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Selection for race specific high resistance to biotic stresses was avoided to select quantitatively inherited genes. Host plant responses to E. turcicum were rated on a scale of 1 (highly tolerant) to 9 (highly susceptible). Highly significant variations were recorded in all trials. General combining ability (GCA) mean square was roughly twice that of specific combining ability (SCA). The genotype (G) by environment (E) interaction was highly significant. The overall results of genetic studies in three diallel sets show that genetic control for inbred tolerance to E. turcicum is polygenic and quantitatively inherited. New inbreds; E-3, N-1 and SG-4 confer better tolerance to E. turcicum than the widely used inbreds; Mo17, and B73. Proper use of genetic information from this study shall increase of corn production under high E. turcicum infection in the Far Eastern Regions of Korea and China.

Northern corn leaf blight caused by Exserohilum turcicum Pass is considered the most important disease infecting corn (Zea mays L.) in the Peoples' Republic of Korea (North Korea). It contributes to the food shortage in North Korea. The objectives of the current research were to study resistance expression and responses of corn crosses made between ten hybrids from North Korea and inbreeding lines (S3-4 stage) from the Republic of Korea (South Korea). The experiments were conducted in six trials with a total of 184 crosses including two commercial hybrids in each trial. The trials were conducted at two locations in North Korea (Mirim and Eunsan) and one location in South Korea (Gunwi) under natural infestation of E. turcicum. Host plant responses were rated on a scale of 1 (highly tolerant) to 9 (highly susceptible). A total of 111 crosses (62.4%) showed significant tolerant or susceptible response variations among three locations; 42 crosses (22.8%) at two locations and 69 crosses (39.0%) at one location, respectively. At least 8 crosses of high level of tolerance and 12 crosses of high level of susceptibility showed significantly different biotic responses (P = 0.05). The results of the current study and historical reviews of E. turcicum epidemics in both North and South Korea suggest that breeding of tolerance with quantitatively inherited genes should be carried out for a sustainable corn production in North Korea.