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China’s Cyber Security Strategy and Its Application to North Korea: Identity and Perception

  • Asia Review
  • Abbr : SNUACAR
  • 2020, 10(1), pp.53~79
  • Publisher : 아시아연구소
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : December 15, 2019
  • Accepted : July 27, 2020
  • Published : August 31, 2020

Chaorum Park 1 Boo, Seung Chan 2

1연세대학교
2연세대학교 통일연구원

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ABSTRACT

This research aims to analyze China’s cyber security strategy based on identity and perception, and apply it to North Korea to predict how the North Korea’s cyber security strategy will take shape in the future. Specifically, China’s cyber security strategy can be classified into “minimization of regime threat,” founded on type identity and threat perception and “maximization of opportunity for status,” rested on role identity and opportunity perception. Underlying this, we suggested the direction of North Korea’s cyber security strategy. The analysis shows that both China and North Korea seek “minimization of regime threat,” but China is shaping its cyber security strategy predicated on the threat perception related to type identity of the Communist Party’s socialist regime, while North Korea is expected to shape its cyber security strategy based on type identity centered on their personal leader. In terms of role identity and opportunity perception, both sides seek “maximization of opportunity for status,” but China recognizes cyberspace as a new drive of economic development that could realize its role identity as the “China dream.” On the other hand, North Korea, which recently announced its shift to “all-out focus on socialist economic construction,” is expected to strengthen its cyber activities as a means to normalize its status under the limited circumstances of sanctions while keeping a close eye on China’s economic development following its informatization.

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