International Cooperation to Solve Environmental Problems in the DPRK
Article on ‘International Cooperation to Solve Environmental Problems in the DPRK’by Dr. Bernhard Seliger and Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi.i.
Dr Bernhard Seliger, Representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea, and Dr Hyun-Ah Choi, Senior Researcher of the HSF Korea, contributed a research paper concerning ‘International Cooperation to Solve Environmental Problems in DPRK‘ with a focus on the foundation’s European Union project(The Korean Journal of Unification Affairs’: 21(1): 47-73).
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) lacks both technical capacity and knowledge to survey environmental problems.Recently, the DPRK has been opening up to the certain international environmental issues such as biodiversity, wetland protection, sustainable forest management, and agroforestry. In this study HSF Korea analysed recent DPRK’s international environmental cooperation for developing technical capacity supported by European Union (EU).
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