A study on cybercrime and its implications on international Relations: The US - North Korean Perspectives

The dawn of information age with its pervasive introduction of digital network have changed every aspect of our life in governments, military, economy, health, personal lives and so on. Information Technology has integrated the world particularly with the use of electronic media. The internet brought about electronic commerce, electronic banking services, electronic government and so on. This has shown the growing importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT.) However along with this importance, there exist a simultaneous raise of a new wave of crime across the globe in the cyberspace. This new crime perpetrated in the cyberspace manifested from different ramification affecting the economy and national security of nations. Consequently this drastically affects nation's relations at international system. This papers hopes to explore the extent to which some cyber crime threatens nations relations focusing attention to the recent Cyber attack row between the US and North Korea. This paper revealed that the result of increasing technological advancement is taking a new dimension as it starts affecting nation's relation at international system. The paper used secondary source for data collection which emphasizes on documentation and other published and unpublished materials. However, analysis was done based on content analysis techniques. In conclusion, the paper recommends for more international collaboration and partnership between government and private sector to mitigate the menace.