Publication

23 Apr 2013

This paper examines the South Korean public's perceived insensitivity to security threats in light of increasing tensions with North Korea. The author explains that outsiders consider it abnormal that people in South Korea maintain their usual daily lives despite the consistent threats from the North. However, he argues, it is not appropriate to criticize South Koreans’ response to the North Korean threat.

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Author Han-wool Jeong
Series EAI Working Papers
Issue 3
Publisher East Asia Institute (EAI)
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