테러동향 변화에 따른 군․경 테러 대응체계 개선방향

Abstract

According to an analysis of world terrorism published by the Australian Institute for Economic and Peace on September 17, 2017, the number of people who lost their lives in terrorism in 2016 was 33,658, increased about 8% from 2016 and 10 times compared with the number 15 years ago. The World’s cost against terrorism was $ 52.9 billion in 2016 which was the greatest historically. This cost was even greater than $51.5 billion which was spent when the 9/11 terrorist attack took place. In addition, START, a major international terrorist research organization in the United States, has reported that 11 major terrorist attacks with more than 100 casualties took place in the first half of 2017 and 26 attacks did in 2016, more than the average of 4.2 attacks from 1978 to 2013. In this manner, as terrorism is growing globally, South Korea is no longer safe from terrorist attacks. In particular, the provocation of North Korea; which has completed the recent 6th nuclear test; the anti - socialist terrorism of South Korea by the inflow of foreigners due to rapid internationalization; and social maladjustment, are becoming a major terror threat in Korea. Such terrorism is increasing worldwide and South Korea can no longer be a safe place from terrorism. In particular, the provocation of North Korea by military and non-military, the inflow of foreigners due to rapid internationalization, and anti-social self- terrorism by social maladjustment are the major terror threats of South Korea. In order to respond to these threats, Korea has enacted the “Anti-Terror Law” in 2016 and operates four anti-terrorism commandos. However, in the current counterterrorism system, the civil authorities respond to terrorist attacks on civilians and civilian facilities, while the military responds to terrorist attacks on military and military facilities. Territorial terrorism and maritime terrorism are addressed separately and locally. The current system of designating responding organizations in response to these terrorist targets and regions is limited in the rapid and efficient response due to the limited integration between the military and the police counter terrorism commandos. In order to overcome these problems, this study analyzed the problems of the current terrorism response system based on the recent trend of terrorism and suggested ways to improve them.