North Korea Is Weaponizing the Naval ‘Gray Zone’ Against the South
North Korea perfectly understands its position of weakness in the maritime domain and is emulating China’s revisionist strategy of gray zone operations to gradually overturn the status quo.
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Sanghoon Kim is an Associate Researcher at Korea Institute for Maritime Strategy (KIMS). He was a KF Research Fellow with the Political and Security Affairs team at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and had served in the Republic of Korea Navy as an officer for three years.
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