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http://dx.doi.org/10.11112/jksmi.2018.22.5.039

Assessment and Analysis of Maintenance Level According to Actual Prediction on the Main Infrastructures of North Korea  

Lee, Jeong-Seok (Department of Architectural Facility Safety, KISTEC)
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Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection / v.22, no.5, 2018 , pp. 39-46 More about this Journal
Abstract
After the North-South Korean summit and PyeongChang Winter Olympics, it is recently expected that the North-South economic cooperation plan will be discussed in earnest. And it will be growing interest of the major infrastructure facilities such as roads and railways, and so on North-South Korean. Moreover, most of North Korean facilities have problems related to the safety and functionality of them such as aging, deterioration, and poor maintenance. This study asserts the necessity and importance of infrastructure maintenance in the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, Results of this study, it is appeared that very vulnerable to road, railroad, power/communication, water sewage and needed urgently for improvement. Accordingly, The purpose of this study is to investigate the current status for the whole facilities including the main infrastructure of the North Korean and to evaluate on the maintenance level of infrastructure based on face to face interview refugees of North Korean.
Keywords
Actual condition survey; Infrastructures of North Korea; Maintenance level; Refugees of North Korean; Face to Face Interview;
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