북극권 개발을 위한 시베리아 북극회랑 연구

Abstract

As the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is reducing rapidly as a result of the global warming, commercialization of the Northern Sea Route is being visualized. The new Northern Sea Route foretells logistic innovation together with a new resource development and global-level trading. It is forecast to bring considerable changes also to transportation and logistic infrastructure in Northern Europe, which is the western gateway for the North Pole route. To search for ways of improving Korea’s competitiveness in line with the resource development in the North Pole and utilization of the Northern Sea Route, it is essential to establish a composite logistic network implementation plan in Eurasia. Currently, countries in the Asia-Pacific region are powerful nations in logistics and European countries are also liked with these countries through logistics. By making use of such environment and infrastructure as a leader of Eurasian cooperation, Korea will be able to strengthen its leadership as it successfully builds a strategic system to ensure long-term cooperation between Asian and European countries. The development of a Northern Sea Route and plans for link, which is a part of the execution plans for the Silk Road Express Project, is aimed at connecting the broken network by establishing a railway and composite logistic transportation system in the Arctic Ocean region. In addition, by using the connected transportation network, Korea plans to participate in the North Pole Governance, to create an opportunity for new resource and infrastructure development in the Arctic Ocean region, and thus to secure a space for future growth.