Tracing North Korea’s A2/AD Strategy and Security Implications (Kil Joo Ban)

• Created 2022.05.24
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Abstract

 

While China’s A2/AD is gaining momentum as an effective strategy to wrestle with the U.S., other states tend to follow suit by establishing their own A2/AD strategy. Meanwhile, North Korea has already adopted its tailored A2/AD which turned out constraining activities of its competitors, such as South Korea and the U.S.. North Korea’s A2 aims at preventing other states from intervening North Korea’s affairs and its scope is beyond the Korean peninsula. North’s AD focuses more on the Korean peninsula to restrain military assets of South Korea and the U.S. from being employed properly. Pyongyang classifies domains of A2/AD into three battlefields: nuclear, conventional, and cyber-electronic to make its A2/AD viable. In response, South Korea needs to take stern measures to offset North Korea’s A2/AD capabilities while making the best of an alliance with the U.S. along with this offsetting approach, Seoul should kick off its own A2/AD strategy, leading to ‘a balance of A2/AD mechanism'.

 

 

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*The article is written in Korean