북한의 대남 사이버공작 대응 방안 연구 - 법적․제도적 개선방안을 중심으로 -

Abstract

North Korean cyber maneuver institutions do actions such as promoting national schisms, the leakage of disinformation, and intelligence disturbance against South Korea through hacking the computer network of South Korean national institutions, anti-South Korea propaganda, and spreading rumors. These are accomplished by using the characteristics of cyber space including the non-face-to-face, the anonymity, the convenience of the usage, a wide range of subjects, the interactivity of communication, the rapidity of spread, the convenience of information manipulation and storage, the inexpensive cost, and the easiness of security. The security of South Korea depends on our countermeasures against their actions because the North Korean cyber maneuver institutions distort cyber space into an area which is for a more intelligent and sophisticated socialist revolution. Development of ICT(information and communications technologies) provides benefits to citizens, but also directly threatens people’s lives and national security from cyber attacks against individuals and institutions. South Korea should not delay legislation of “Cyber Terrorism Protection Law” or other laws that relate to cyber security to be substantial legal basis for the deletion and access blocking of the web-sites for North Korean cyber maneuvers, the blocking of North Korean hacker funding, and the batch process against the web-sites violating security law to rationally solve North Korean cyber maneuvers. Long-term strategy at the national level for the expansion of cyber security organizations in relevant government ministries, the development of sophisticated defense security systems, and the nurturing of cyber experts should be established as an aggressive response to North Korean cyber terrorism. Although it may not be possible to fully resolve the North Korean cyber maneuver against South Korea, we should increase the possibility through national and international investigative cooperation.