Korean DLPT Prep Vocab 1120-1169

보장하다

to guarantee, to secure, to ensure

비료

a fertilizer, manure

비전향 장기수

unconverted long term prisoner

비핵화

denuclearization

사회주의

socialism

생사확인

confirmation of life and death

선제공격

a preemptive strike

송환하다

to repatriate, to send back

수석대표

the chief delegate

시사하다

to imply, to suggest

식량난

the difficulty of obtaining food

억류하다

to detain

여부

yes or no, whether or not

열악하다

inferior, poor, deteriorated

우상화

idolization

우호적

convivial, friendly

우회적

circumlocutory, roundabout

위폐 (위조지폐)

a forged bill

이념적

ideological

이산가족 상봉

reunion of dispersed family members

이행하다

to fulfill, to carry out, to execute, to put into practice

인권유린

an infringement on people’s rights

인도적

humanitarian

자유시장 경제

free market economy

전력난

energy crisis

전향적

proactive

정례화하다

to regularize

정상회담

a summit talk

정착하다

to settle down

정치범

political offender

종전선언

declaration of the end of the war

주사파 (주체 사상파)

people that sympathize with the North Korean Juche Ideology

책동

maneuvers, machination, scheming

최고 인민 회의

Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly

탈북자 (새터민)

North Korean defector

패권

hegemonic power

햇볕정책

sunshine policy

호혜적

reciprocal, give-and-take, mutually benefiting

화상상봉

video reunion

겨냥하다

to take aim (at), to level (a gun at)

격멸하다

to destroy, to exterminate, to annihilate

경각심

awakening, self-awakening

고농축 우라늄

highly enriched uranium (HEU)

고도제한

height restriction

고위

a high rank

교전

belligerency, battle, combat

구축하다

to build, to establish

규정하다

to stipulate, to ordain, to prescribe

냉전

the Cold War

단호하다

firm, resolute, determined