Article 2 Review

This article relates to the principles of social science in multiple ways. This article is based on “North Korean Cyber Attacks and Policy Responses: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Framework.” In the introduction of this article it is talking about how cyberspace has become such an area of importance in international security. North Korea has apparently now developed advanced cyber warfare capabilities and is now involved in the dark part of the web which is never a good thing. The type of study that is occurring in this is a “qualitative analysis of the objects,forms,current trends,and characteristics of North Korean cyber terror attacks.” “Despite the increase in threats to cybersecurity, the fact that there is no single definition of cyberterrorism in international society as well as in academia and in relevant international cases remains a prominent problem in terrorism studies (Kim, 2017).” This point that was made by kim is very true, this is a prominent problem that would take place in terrosim studies that occur. North Korean people have restricted access to such advanced internet infrastructure that they can have there. But that still does not stop them from having a great cyber army that they do have. According to this, “on March 20, 2013, North Korea initiated waves of cyber assaults using malware against South Korean banks and broadcast stations. It was confirmed that North Korea incapacitated 48,000 computers and paralyzed networks.” They have made destruction against data and corrupted a lot of information in many places, according to the DHS. Within this study they were able to find out the motive behind North Korea doing these types of attacks which led to “parameters of the state’s long-term policy objectives, and that the perpetrated cyber-attacks will multiply in number as well as in form in the future.” The current study is utilizing criminological theoretical frameworks to conduct a very good analysis. This topic relates to challenges,concerns,and contributions of marginalized groups in many ways. For challenges this can be because of how other countries have to keep their security alert with things like this happening. With talking about marginalized groups, this can be a threat to them shutting down their computer and network could destroy them. This is a very concerning topic as technology is advancing as of today still knowing that their cyber army is getting even stronger and everyone else’s. The overall contributions of this to society can be negatively affected overall. “After the initial analysis, a secondary, more intensive analysis was conducted with regard to policy formulation. The network theory of world politics, and in particular the three concepts of collective power, positional power and programming power formed the basis upon which the responses were analyzed.” They are using this to get power in many different ways, for example economically, which is what every country wants. There are a decent amount of concepts that relate to this topic that we have learned. Like all of the types of definitions described here in the article and frameworks and infrastructure.


Hwang, J., & Choi, K.-S. (2021). North Korean cyber attacks and policy responses: An interdisciplinary theoretical framework. International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence and Cybercrime, 4(2), 4-24. https://www.doi.org/10.52306/04020221NHPZ9033

https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1103&context=ijcic