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Development of the ROK Conduct of War System: Determinants and Features

Jeongki Kim 1

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ABSTRACT

Conduct of War System(COWS) is developed with the many types by variable determinants. And that make features. Then, the development of the Republic of Korea (ROK) COWS has been changed along with three types. As a result of this analyses, two main factors of the type's transformation are the security environment and the president's perception of national security in the ROK. For the ROK, her unique security environment was created from the North Korea's threat and the dependence on the United States (US) security assistance. Likewise, the ROK presidents' perception of national security, which has been centered on North Korea and the United States, influenced the fomentation and development of the COWS. From 1948 to 2008, in the ROK history, the type change of COWS has developed from dependent to combined to self-reliant. Therefore, in the features, operational authority was gradually from endorsed to combined to redeemed. And grant aids from the US gradually reduced and terminated. Recently, the strategic thought and action based on those points is getting more important because of the sinking of the ROK Ship Cheonan on March 26, 2010 especially. And in order to deal with victory in war, peace and unification for the Korea Peninsula, these are urgently needed in the transfer process of war-time OPCON and grant aids.

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