This chapter examines the evolving and imminent North Korean cyber threat and primarily highlights the role of the Reconnaissance General Bureau (and its cyber footprints as the core institutional system of North Korea’s cyber operations). The chapter also examines the possibility of an EU-South Korea cyber-strategic partnership based on the respective cybersecurity strategies against North Korea’s threats and other cybersecurity concerns and, to this end, formulates four policy recommendations to improve South Korea’s cybersecurity defence posture which are relevant for further South Korea-EU cyber cooperation: the establishment of a whole-of-the-government consensus on the necessity of countermeasures against cybersecurity threats, the construction of central authority in charge of overall cybersecurity policies, and the institutionalization of international cooperation in cybersecurity through various channels.
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Cybersecurity-related laws have been proposed several times since 2006, but they were often repealed after sluggish discussions. Since the Cyber Security Basic Act has been also pending for over a year, the entire governance of cyber security is still dependent on the presidential decree.
Kim Young-do and others, “Major Issues of the National Cyber Security System in South Korea, and its Future Direction,” Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Vol. 25, No. 4 (December 2013): 435–455.
In 2019, South Korea overhauled the country’s cyber command, renaming the unit the Cyber Operations Command and designating it as an entity under the direct control of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the purpose of reinvigorating its military operational focus.