Strategic Containment: Triangulating North Korea’s Asymmetric Provocations with a Multilateral Electronic and Cyber Warfare Containment Strategy
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North Korea, South Korea, United States, China, Electronic Warfare, Cyber Warfare, Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons, containment, Asia-Pacific, SecurityAbsztrakt
North Korea’s asymmetric provocations complicate the security environment, thereby preventing the employment of alternative forms of conflict transformation and peacebuilding operations to facilitate peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. Strategically containing those provocations by employing electronic and cyberwarfare capabilities may provide the opening needed to introduce a new, concerted, multilateral, multipronged strategic approach to transform the conflict dynamics, stabilize the regional and domestic environment, and facilitate peace. Part one of this article provides readers with a general overview of electronic warfare (EW), cyber warfare (CW), cyberspace (CS), the electromag-netic spectrum (EMS), electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons, and North Korea’s capabilities. Part two utilizes the information provided in part one to make the argument as to why a strategic EW/CW containment doctrine is needed, and outlines some of its parameters. Part three concludes that a EW/CW containment doctrine can only be one pillar of a new, concerted, multilateral, multipronged strategic approach to bringing lasting peace to the Korean Peninsula.
