With the arrival of the post -Cold War era, politically and military -centric international order, transforming into economy and technology -based order. In the field of national security in the traditional military field, the types and subjects of security threats have also becomediversification.Therefore, the judgment and comparative comparison of national security threats were even more uncertain, and the type of threats also expanded from a conflict between force to non -military and super -national fields such as terrorist attacks or large -scale killing weapons.In modern battlefields, traditional military security plus non -military means mixed hybrid warfare.

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hybrid war is how to use non -military means.The concept represented by psychological warfare (PSYWAR) or public opinion war, hacker war, economic information warfare, and cyber warfare shakes people's psychology, which will not only cause social horror and chaos, but also cause huge economic losses. Sometimes they pass through.Paralysis public system for physical destruction.It can be used as the beginning and end of the war, and has a strong destructive power. Regardless of whether it is war or usually, 365 days and 24 hours will conduct activities that transcend national, nationality and race around anywhere around the world.

The cognitive war that has recently appeared around the world is to affect people's thinking and actions by intentionally fabricating specific facts or specific narratives.In particular, some authoritarian countries, to start these cognitive wars in order to improve the influence of hostile countries, are the new concepts that are not available in existing military theory.Although it is similar to the information warfare trying to control information flow, the cognitive war is another war form that controls the individual who responds to information, and the group's reaction method.A consensus is that the future war may be led by the cognitive war.

Cognitive war is a strategy that disruits the hearts of the people, instigates the dislike of the hostile government, reduces the morale of the people and the army, and makes the enemy's weakness, some people call it "a war without smoke."With the development of cutting -edge information communication and the high information of the environment, this has become an important field of war.The representative method of the cognitive war is to spread fake news in various ways to avoid the comprehensive conflict of the army, while continuing to carry out low -intensity provocative Grey Zone tactics.

Therefore, in today's cognitive war, the traditional "war and peace" two -point method is meaningless.In this spectrum, war and peace, the country and the people can only be understood as relative positions.Obstructing reasonable decisions is also a kind of cognitive war. For example, North Korea continues to use nuclear armed forces to leave the impression that people can use nuclear weapons at any time.In the academic field, distorting academic research and affecting the decision -making of the enemy government, so as to formulate policies that are conducive to their own country, or prevent the other party from developing unfavorable policies, it is also the field of cognitive war.Between the boundaries between force and non -force, military, and civilians, to mobilize the means and methods that could not be defined by the concept of "war", which can be described as a new field of war.

South Korea is troubled by the North Korean cognitive war is a well -known fact, but recently, South Korea is facing a cognitive war launched by some Chinese netizens.A South Korean research team pointed out by mastering the cognitive tactical reality report in the competitive industry field in South Korea and China that repeated public opinion incitement was found in competitive industries such as electric vehicles and smartphones.Organic Chinese netizens have misleaded the concerns of public opinion through Korean domestic network reports or posts.The posts that the research group revealed that the posts of posts, usually expressing remarks such as degrading South Korea or promoting social division. When specific themes become the focus, they will be intensive, but the identity of these groups is not clear.

In fact, it is not the first time that China ’s online forces are suspected of manipulating South Korean public opinion.At the end of last year, Chinese companies, which are unknown, opened 38 websites disguised as domestic media in South Korea, spreading the content of news form, filled with contradictions such as domestic gender, region, politics and other contradictions in South Korea, spreading, slandering, or degradation of South Korea.Recently, around the popular Korean black and white chefs on Netflix, some Chinese people criticized that "South Korea introduced Chinese cuisine as its own."This may be a view, but these remarks are becoming a new contradiction and will damage folk feelings.

In order to expand the country's influence, it is taken for granted to make various efforts.There is no problem with expanding influence through normal methods.However, this attempt to mislead public opinion, affects the decisions that are favorable to themselves in a specific country, and create a sense of restlessness, and consumption of the party's national strength, which is a very irrational approach.Because this is a substantial provocation that threatens the national security of other countries.At this point, countries should self -rectify themselves, otherwise influice operations, it will bring a negative negative result.Don't forget that excessive cognitive battles will bring pain that cannot be washed to the soul.

The author is a professor at the University of Foreign Language and Foreign Language and President of the Northeast Asia Future Cooperation Forum