Sejong Focus

(September 2023 No.47) Progress toward a Global Country: The Significance and Future Tasks of the Camp David Trilateral Summit

Date 2023-09-01 View 1,458

Realization of Security Paradigm Shift and State's New Role



Kyunghwan Cho

kwhan80cho@gmail.com

Visiting Research Fellow at Gangwon Institute

 

The Korean Peninsula faces a multi-layered, complex, and transnational crisis. With traditional military security threats and prolonged U.S.-China confrontation, non-traditional emerging security challenges such as climate change, terrorism, cyber-attacks, healthcare environment crises, refugees, and social cohesion have entered our lives. It intermittently threatens the life and safety of the people and the national interest. A qualitative change in the role of the state is inevitable in the changed security environment. The global interdependence of emerging security and the frequent internal and external security threats require adjustment of the priority on resource allocation and establishment of flexible governance.​