북한의 해운·항만법제 변화 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out the implications of the revision of North Korea's Maritime and Port Law for the North Korean economy. North Korea's Maritime and Port Law was classified into three periods, and looked into two frameworks: characteristics of North Korean law and compliance with international norms.
 As a result, North Korea's shipping and port legislation presupposes international trade, so it was created within the framework of international convention from the beginning of its origin. Regardless of the time period, North Korea recognized the shipping and port industry as an important sector for economic growth, and reformed its laws to accept international norms in order to open its economy to the outside world. In addition, policy changes were made according to changes in the internal and external environment, and a causal relationship was shown in which changes in shipping and port laws were accompanied within the framework.
 The enactment and revision of the Shipping and Port Act in the 2010s, a period of expansion of economic opening to foreign countries, was more systematized and concrete compared to the previous period, and the law was reformed in the direction of mitigating discrimination against foreign ships and crew, objectivity, efficiency, and simplification of administration.
 However, in order to achieve a virtuous cycle structure in which law revision leads to industrial development, it is necessary to move towards market socialism through fundamental economic and institutional reforms.