Mount Paektu Research Centre (MPRC)

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The Mount Paektu Research Centre (MPRC) is hosted within the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at Birkbeck, University of London. It hosts international research collaborations that have to date involved scientists and others from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the UK, Germany and other EU countries, China and the USA. It reports that since 2011 it has carried out field and laboratory studies concerning the environment, volcanology and underlying structure of Mt. Paektu (known as Changbaishan in China). The Mount Paektu Geoscientific Group was formed in September 2011, and the centre was established in February 2020. Its projects include Disaster Risk Reduction in the DPRK and a Korean translation of the COPE: Be Ready For Disasters books.

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Founding year

2020

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Birkbeck, University of London
London