The purpose of this study was to suggest ways to improve national crisis management capabilities, focusing on ways to re-establish a national-level exercise and training system.
The international community, including Korea, is in a multiple and com...
The purpose of this study was to suggest ways to improve national crisis management capabilities, focusing on ways to re-establish a national-level exercise and training system.
The international community, including Korea, is in a multiple and complex crisis management environment, including traditional security fields in the military sector, non-military and transnational threats such as terrorism, cyberattacks, extreme weather, and new infectious diseases, as well as new crises caused by the development of IT technology and artificial intelligence (AI).
In particular, in the midst of the increasingly advanced North Korean nuclear crisis, problems in national crisis management, such as the absence of a government control tower role in the Ferry Sewol disaster, the Bombardment of Yeonpyeong Island, and the lack of integrated crisis response, must be urgently supplemented.
Based on the annual national-level exercise, the government exercise, this study presented a development plan to improve national crisis management, focusing on the re-establishment of the national-level exercise and training system from a macro perspective, and the main contents are as follows.
First, the concept of terms that are being used unclearly, such as national crisis and emergency preparedness, exercise and training, was established based on the "Basic Guidelines for National Crisis Management",
Second, the general theory of crisis management, the theory of crisis management, the theory of Policy Decision-Making applied in the event of an actual crisis, and the organizational theory dealing with the relationship of each system of crisis management were applied as theoretical backgrounds.
Third, the national crisis management system and case analysis, such as the organizational system, legal system, and national-level exercise and training system of the United States, Japan, and Korea, were used to derive implications and analyze Korea's national crisis management environment and problems.
Fourth, as a way to develop the national-level exercise and training system, it proposed ways to reestablish the national-level exercise and training system, such as writing planning documents, planning systems, evaluation systems, control systems, and computer simulation support system, selecting and mastering key tasks, and creating and utilizing national crisis management architectures.
Fifth, in connection with the development plan of the national-level exercise and training system, the improvement of national crisis management laws, revision of emergency preparation training rules, and measures to strengthen the capabilities and expertise of related organizations were proposed.
The plan for re-establishing the national-level exercise and training system proposed in this study will establish a national-level exercise and training system and be applied to national-level exercise and training to achieve exercise and training results, which will contribute to enhancing national crisis management capabilities.
In this study, the legal system and organizational system were not dealt with in detail, and there were some limitations in data search due to security problems. In future studies, it is expected that more in-depth research will be conducted by supplementing this. In addition, it is hoped that this study will be used as a reference material for the development of national crisis management research and will be practically applied to national-level exercise and training to further enhance the national crisis management ability.