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The purpose of this study is to examine the change process of the land system of North Korea, and to try to find how to rearrange its system in the unification. it is desirable to examine the land system of the part of North Korea from the viewpoint of South Korea.
About sixty years have passed since 1945, when Korea divided into South and North. For half the century, the discussion on the unification has been an issue. Although North Korea which shows severe economic hardships have not outwardly accepted the danger of the destructive system, we can recognize that there are inwardly economic disruption and food hardships, which were problems with the past socialist system. Therefore, there are increasing likelihood that the unity of the Korean peninsula will come true very soon.
Land system in South and North Korea has basic difference of such an extent that any effort to find point of reconciliation between them is hopeless. In particular North Korea has been stuck with Socialistic concept of property possession adamantly more than any other Socialistic countries of the world. Accordingly there will be numerous difficulties and challenges for applying our system of Land as it is to post-unification North Korea. The issue of land ownership in unified and socialist transition countries has risen to the basic problem with life. Since the issue has been a major point of debate in the part of North Korea, we should prepare its measures and solutions.

This study established gradual privatization as a basic direction, in which combined privatization (onerous and free distribution) are promoted, in order to minimize the confusion caused by newly secured land in the unification and to ensure efficient system of land management. Specially, this study focused on how to decide and register the ownership of the land which was nationalized without compensation or which used by North Korean as a temporary user. I mainly discussed on granting the land ownership through land auction and public rental system of land or granting the land use right through rental system as a gradual privatizing plan after nationalizing the land. For achieving combined gradual privatization (onerous and free distribution), related institutes need to study and examine more concrete lawful, administrative, and systemic measures afterward such as support programs for the North Korean, introducing the concept of the land pubic auction system, countermeasures for preventing from North Korean land speculation and so on.