The Evolving Cyber Landscape: Capabilities and Cyber Diplomatic Efforts of Korean Peninsula

Cybersecurity has emerged as a critical domain in global politics, posing significant threats to economy, national security and the integrity of states. Korean peninsula, with its geopolitical dynamics in East Asia featuring south Korea as an emerging technological power, and the historically rival between North and South Koreas, holds particular importance. This region encompasses technologically advanced state, as well as a globally isolated state that remains wary of cyber warfare threats. As the scope of cyber politics expands, states have recalibrated their foreign policies, prioritizing cyber diplomacy as a key component of their strategic approach. This study tends to explore the policy implications mainly focusing on regional and international cooperation in order to initiate confidence-building measures and capacity-building the participating states. This research seeks to explain the cyber threat because of the strategic interconnectedness from the central concept of the al security and international cooperation by using the theory of neo-realism and neo-liberalism. The theoretical framework offers valid arguments to examine how the international cooperative measures and the inclusion of the strategic policies regarding cyber threats strengthen the strategic outreach of the states (South Korea, USA, Japan ) to maintain their regional political positions and edge over North Korea. Moreover, the research investigates and elaborates the dynamics that drove the cyber politics from level of low politics to high politics and provide an analytical insight over the cyber diplomatic efforts of the states to maintain the global peace and security.