[통일과나눔 컨퍼런스] 통일과나눔-美스팀슨센터 38 North 온라인 세미나 <한반도의 비전통적 안보 과제: 사이버 안보>

[통일과나눔-美스팀슨센터 38 North 공동 주최 비공개 온라인 세미나] 6/4(화) 오전8시 한반도의 비전통적 안보 과제: 사이버 안보 Nontraditional Security Challenges on the Korean Peninsula: Cyber Security 비전통적 안보 사안인 사이버 안보의 중요성에 대한 구체적인 구상을 발전시킬 필요성이 점점 커지고 있습니다. 오는 6월 4일 화요일 오전 8시-9시(KST), 통일과나눔-美스팀슨센터 38 North가 공동주최하는 온라인 세미나에서 한반도에 영향을 미치는 비전통적 안보 위협인 사이버 영역에 대한 북한의 불법 사이버 활동과 북한 IT 종사자 감시와 관련된 떠오르는 사이버 안보 문제에 대해 美스팀슨센터 38 North 및 싱크탱크의 전문가들이 발표를...

[뉴스] The ‘Axis of Evil’ Is Overhyped

Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in July, longtime U.S. intelligence official John McLaughlin described the threat posed by China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia as “the distinguishing characteristic of our world right now.” McLaughlin, the former acting director of the CIA, warned that the United States’ adversaries had “formed a group” and were increasingly cooperating against Washington and its...

[뉴스] Japan is selling patrol vessels to the Philippines. Is Tokyo confronting Beijing with more ‘aggressive diplomacy’?

The Philippines’ purchase of Japanese patrol vessels amid growing tensions in the South China Sea is the latest indication of Tokyo’s growing role as a security provider in the region, observers say, as they point to the need to confront Beijing through deterrence and more “aggressive diplomacy”.

[뉴스] US, South Korea, Japan Seek to Expand Cooperation to Counter China

WASHINGTON — The United States, South Korea and Japan have expanded their security cooperation beyond North Korea with their Indo-Pacific Dialogue, which one expert called a “significant” development aimed at deterring Beijing from escalating threats in the region.

[정치/군사] 문화로 포장된 안보 -- 대북정책, 담론, 그리고 문화산업의 교차점

... 문화·언론·대중산업이 어떻게 안보 담론을 재구성하는가를 분석한 책이다. 저자는 한반도의 긴장과 평화가 단지 무기나 외교 전략의 결과가 아니라, 드라마·뉴스·대중음악·정치언어 속에서 형성되는 ‘감정의 전쟁’임을 밝힌다. 한류는 세계를 사로잡았지만 동시에 북한에는 사상적 위협으로 작동한다. 이 역설적 관계를 통해 저자는 ‘문화 안보(Cultural Security)’라는 새로운 분석 틀을 제시하며, 한국 사회가 직면한 안보·정체성·문화의 삼중 구조를 날카롭게 해부한다. 이 책은 정책학자, 언론인, 문화기획자, 대북전략 연구자들에게 ‘안보를 말하는 새로운 언어’가 필요함을 보여주는 문화정치학의 필독서다. ---------------------------- “안보는 더 이상 탱크와 미사일의 숫자로 설명되지 않는다...

[정치/군사] Nuclear North Korea

Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang’s Nuclear North Korea was first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. It promptly became a landmark of an ongoing debate in academic and policy circles about whether to engage or contain North Korea. Fifteen years later, as North Korea tests intercontinental ballistic missiles and the U.S. president angrily refers

[학술논문] Destabilizing the Balance of Threat on the Korean Peninsula: The Russia-North Korea Military Alliance

...rhetoric and military provocations as key drivers of South Korea’s threat perception. Empirical evidence shows that North Korea’s mis-sile tests, nuclear development, and cyber activities intensify security anxiety. The Russia-North Korea partnership further destabilizes the balance of threat on the Korean Peninsula, prompting South Korea to strengthen alliances with the United States and Japan and enhance...

[학술논문] An Unexpected Link between Export Sanctions and Cyberespionage

Do export controls cause cyberespionage? Despite significant interest in both export controls and cyberespionage, the link between them remains understudied. This article argues that when export controls restrict a target country's access to advanced technology, it may resort to cyberespionage as a workaround. A 2SRI analysis of 747,716 directed dyad-year cases from 2001 to 2020 shows that countries

[학술논문] Transforming Youth Perceptions of Korean Unification through Global Citizenship Education

...potential of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) as an alternative framework for addressing this challenge. Existing unification discourse and education, largely grounded in ethnic nationalism and security-centered narratives, have increasingly failed to resonate with youth whose value orientations and perceptual structures differ from those of previous generations. Against this backdrop, the study...

[학술논문] Civilian Control and Strategic Force Formation: How Military Autonomy Drives Organizational Change

...organizational interests, gaining enhanced resources, autonomy, and prestige. These findings complement explanations focusing on external threats or technological capabilities by demonstrating that military organizational interests and civil‐military dynamics also fundamentally shape strategic force development, with important implications for understanding nuclear proliferation and Korean Peninsula security.

[학술논문] Strategic Costs and Russia’s Shifting Calculus on Nuclear Assistance to North Korea

...structural conditions that underpinned that policy have now eroded. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union restrained North Korea’s nuclear program because proliferation would have undermined its own security, regional influence, and alliance control. In the post–Cold War period, Russia’s decline reduced these costs, but fears of regional instability and reactive proliferation still discouraged nuclear...

[해외] A blueprint for a US-South Korea combined multi-domain task force

In an era of accelerating geopolitical competition and rapid technological advancement, the security landscape of the Indo-Pacific region and the Korean Peninsula demands a forward-thinking evolution of the US-Republic of Korea (ROK) alliance. The challenge for the alliance is to enhance deterrence while accounting for changing strategic and operational realities. In the latest US National Defense...

[국내] 국정원법 개정과 경제안보 시대 국가정보체계의 전환

최근 국회 정보위원회에서 국정원법 개정안이 의결되면서, 한국 국가정보 체계가 기존의 방첩·대공 중심 구조에서 경제·기술·공급망 중심의 “경제안보 (Economic Security)” 체계로 전환되고 있다는 평가가 제기되고 있다. 특히 미·중 전략경쟁 심화와 첨단기술 패권 경쟁, 글로벌 공급망 불안정, 산업기술 유출, 해외 영향력 활동 확대 등 최근의 국제안보 환경 변화는 경제·산업·기술 영역을 단순한 민간경제 차원을 넘어 국가안보의 핵심 영역으로 재인식하게 만드는 요인으로 작용하고 있다. 반도체·AI·바이오·배터리·핵심광물 등 전략 산업은 국가 경쟁력뿐 아니라 전략적 자율성(strategic autonomy)과 국가 생존 역량을 좌우하는 핵심 전략자산으로 부상하고 있으며, 이에 따라 정보 기관의 역할 역시 기존의...

[해외] Tracing Russian Linkages in North Korea’s Expanding Nuclear Complex

...of indicators, however, suggests that Moscow may be playing a larger role in Pyongyang’s military and nuclear modernization than previously understood, with significant implications for regional security and proliferation dynamics. This report traces these links by triangulating advances in uranium enrichment and potential nuclear submarine propulsion systems, the intermediary networks involved, and...

[해외] Building a Robust U.S.-ROK Cyber Alliance

This report, Building a Robust U.S.-ROK Cyber Alliance: A Joint Cyber Resilience Strategy, examines how the United States and South Korea can strengthen bilateral cyber cooperation in response to an increasingly complex and transnational threat environment. As cyber operations from North Korea, China, and Russia grow in scale and sophistication, the report argues that existing approaches are insufficient

[해외] China is confronting new realities on the Korean Peninsula

...Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un will meet again, but whether the peninsula can be prevented from entering a more dangerous cycle of escalation and bloc confrontation. From Beijing’s standpoint, the central issue is whether diplomacy can still function as an instrument of risk reduction in a deteriorating security environment. Beijing’s position on the Korean Peninsula can be addressed in five points.