중국 해양전략의 초한전적 접근과 한국의 대응전략

Abstract

This study analyzes China’s maritime strategy through the conceptual framework of Unrestricted Warfare and evaluates its implications for South Korea’s maritime security. I develop a five-dimensional analytical framework-military; legal and institutional; economic; information and cyber; and diplomatic and psychological-and apply it to three cases: the Ieodo dispute, contestation in the South China Sea, and the enactment and implementation of China’s Coast Guard Law. Empirical findings demonstrate that China’s maritime practice exhibits an Unrestricted Warfare logic in which military and non-military instruments are systematically integrated to produce cumulative, space-spanning effects. The selected cases show how legal measures, intermittent maritime presence, economic influence, information operations, and institutional reform combine to shape factual control and constrain rivals without resorting to open conflict. These developments pose a multidimensional challenge to South Korea’s maritime security. The study argues that effective Korean responses require an integrated, multi-layered strategy that goes beyond force modernization to include strengthening international legal capacity and narrative legitimacy, diversifying maritime cooperation and supply chains, enhancing cyber and port resilience, and building robust information-space and diplomatic capabilities.