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Research Trends in Meteorology and Climatology in North Korea Using Data Mining – from 1982 to 2022 -

  • The Journal of Northeast Asia Research
  • Abbr : NEA
  • 2022, 37(2), pp.221-262
  • DOI : 10.18013/jnar.2022.37.2.007
  • Publisher : The Institute for Northeast Asia Research
  • Research Area : Social Science > Political Science > International Politics > International Relations / Cooperation
  • Received : November 4, 2022
  • Accepted : December 21, 2022
  • Published : December 31, 2022

Heo, Sun-hye 1

1전북대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to explore the research trends and characteristics of North Korea’s weather and climate field by closely examining research papers in North Korean journals from 1982 to 2022. To this end, I summarized key words based on Korea’s national science and technology standard classification system and collected 1,263 papers among papers owned by the NK-tech. Then I extracted bibliographic information through crawling techniques using selenium library. Research results show that papers related to weather observation and analysis technology was the most active in the field of meteorological science. After Kim Jong-un took power, study on agricultural weather and numerical forecasting gained much attention, emphasizing cooperation between the agriculture and the weather observation to improve food productivity. In the field of climatology, research of climate change impact assessment and response technology was actively conducted in accordance with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the National Strategic Plan for Responding to Climate Change. Lastly, in the field of air science, it was notable that the research on air quality monitoring has increased since the enactment of the Air Pollution Prevention Act in 2012. This study has methodological and academic significance in that it accumulated research data through data mining and improved understanding of research trends in the field.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.