The present study is aimed to present a plan to improve the military strategy of
South Korean military in preparation for a new type of North Korea's provocation
against South Korea as North Korea has been armed with nuclear weapons.
Under the consecu...
The present study is aimed to present a plan to improve the military strategy of
South Korean military in preparation for a new type of North Korea's provocation
against South Korea as North Korea has been armed with nuclear weapons.
Under the consecutive sanction and pressure of the international community,
North Korean Kim Jeong-un regime has proceeded nuclear tests 5 times to
downsize and standardize nuclear weapons, and increase the holdings of nuclear
materials, which is needed to advance the capacity of nuclear weapons, diversifying
the deliveries of nuclear weapons such as various types of missiles, SLBM test
launching, and nuclear submarine. In addition, the regime declared last year to be a
nuclear power at the 7th Party Congress and adopted “Policy Line Paralleling
Nuclear Force and Economy" as permanent strategy and took its status of nuclear
power as fact. When analyzing the series of these moves by North Korea, it is
expected that Kim Jeong-un regime will never give up nuclear weapons and rather
reinforce nuclear military strategy to take advantage of more actively as means of
provocation against South Korea. Accordingly, we have to develop a military
strategy in preparation for a new type of North Korea's provocation against South
Korea as North Korea has been armed with nuclear weapons. This study found out
that it is highly likely that the North Korean regime led by Kim Jeong-un starts a
limited war, focusing on strong local provocation with conventional weaponry while
maintaining the Balance of terror of mutually assured destruction (MAD) by arming
itself with nuclear weapons. Therefore, plans to develop our military strategy can be
presented as follows, First, it is 'Offensive Rejective Deterrence Strategy' that aims to
remove nuclear weapons and nullify the use in advance in the peacetime and when
North Korean's use of nuclear weapon is detected. Second, it is 'The Strategy of
Quickly Securing Strategic Goal' in preparation for limited wars of local provocation
that Kim Jeong-un regime, holding nuclear weapons, is expected to attempt to
accomplish its political and military goals.
Key words: North korea's nuclear armament, Limited war, Military strategy,
Offensive rejective deterrence strategy, The strategy of quickly
securing strategic goal