The Registration Matters of Real Estate Rights in North Korea after Unification

Abstract

The title of this thesis is “Issues with the Registration of Real Estate Rights in North Korea after Unification”. In this paper, I reviewed the changing process of the real estate registration system and and laws related the real estate registration system in North Korea. And I reviewed the direction of integration of the real estate registration system in North Korea. The main contents are as follows. First, in order to establish a real estate registration system in North Korea, a cadastral survey must be conducted. Second, for houses, the occupants living in the house can apply for ownership preservation registration. Third, for farmland owned by a cooperative farm, members belonging to the cooperative farm can apply for registration of original ownership. Fourth, heirs of property rights confiscated by the North Korean regime cannot apply for ownership preservation registration.