ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at that the new security concepts which were developed in Europe and the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, with a view to illuminating the security problems on the Korean peninsula. Mutual security proponents recommend efforts to make the interaction among nations as full of positive-sum games as possible. Common security advocates the view that international peace must rest on a commitment by each nation to joint survival rather than on threats of mutual destruction. The concept of cooperative security implies that nations seek to achieve national security by pursuing only such objectives as are compatible with the security of other nations and that they seek collaborative rather than confrontational military relations. The Korean war cemented the division of the peninsula into two irreconcilable halves, each holding strong enemy images of the other. North Korea thus wants to regulate South Korean defence spending as a way of curtailing its procurement of advanced weapons.
