Newsletter by SAND
2024. 4.19 Number 25 | publisher kyong-hui Choi
South And North Development
www. SAND.OR.KR
Just as Sand means sand in English, the SAND Research Institute will fill the empty space in inter-Korean relations and North Korea research amid the social focus, and communicate with society with a confident attitude and innovative research results. The SAND Research Institute, comprised of researchers from North and South Korea, will play its role as the main material to build a new 'house of unification' and pave the 'path to unification', just as sand is used as a key material for semiconductors in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Opinion
Hyun Seung-soo,
Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU)
The Prospect of Vladimir Putin's Visit to North Korea and Their Relations
Since the eruption of the Ukraine War, its reverberations have deeply affected the Korean Peninsula. South Korea's strong condemnation of Russia's disregard for international law in neighboring countries' invasions led to active participation in...
Yonhap News
News & Issues
Cho Eun-il
Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA)
Analysis of the US-Japan Summit and Its Impact on the Korean Peninsula
On April 10, 2024, a pivotal US-Japan summit took place during Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's visit to the United States. The Kishida administration has pursued a qualitative...
Yonhap News
Jeong Jun-hee
Former Director of North Korean Policy Analysis Division at the Ministry of Unification
North Korean Human Rights:
10 Years After the COI Report on North Korea Human Rights
It’s been a decade since the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) presented its report on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Despite the report drawing...
Voice of North Korean Defectors
Lee Young-ran,
Chairwoman of the Mantap Mountain Association (originally from Kilju County)
“Radiation victims in Kilju County need our attention.”
I spent over five decades in Kilju County, Hamgyongbuk-do, home to the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site. I lived through the first three nuclear tests between 2009 and 2013 before defecting from...
Korea Meteorological Administration
Kim Myongsung’s Inside North Korea
Kim Myungsung
SAND's Secretary
General Editor for the SAND Newsletter
SAND Audio
North Korea Initiates ‘Forgiveness Campaign’, Urges Crime Confessions in Pyongyang
NK Focus: Resumption of Illicit Trade across the North Korea-China Border – Full Reopening in April?
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