The Korea Institute for National Unification is a

think tank A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-govern ...

funded by the

South Korean government The Government of South Korea is the union government of the Republic of Korea, created by the Constitution of South Korea as the executive, legislative and judicial authority of the republic. The president acts as the head of state and is th ...

focusing on issues related to

Korean reunification Korean reunification () is the potential reunification of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea into a single Korean sovereign state. The process towards reunification was started by the June 15th North–South ...

History

In 1990, the institute was established as a hub of research on

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...

. In 2010, the institute carried out an interview with 33 defectors from North Korea and found out that the spread of ''Hallyu'', or the Korean Wave, was one of the main factors encouraging some North Koreans to risk their lives to escape to

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

Publications

White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea

The Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) opened the Center for North Korean Human Rights, in December 1994, to collect and manage professionally and systematically all source materials and objective data concerning North Korean human rights; and from 1996, KINU has been publishing every year the ‘White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea’ in Korean and in English.
White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2014White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2012

Reports and analyses

Law and Policy on Korean Unification: Analysis and ImplicationsImproving Human Rights in North Korea2nd KINU-ASPI 1.5 Track Streategic Dialogue The Road to a ‘Happy Unification’The Trust-building Process and Korean unification

International Journal of Korean Unification Studies

vol. 24, no. 123, no. 2vol. 23, no. 1

References

External links

Korea Institute for National Unification
Politics of North Korea Politics of South Korea Think tanks established in 1990 Organizations specializing in North Korean issues {{SouthKorea-stub