The rapidly evolving security and war battlefield in the 21st Century demand upright evaluation and appropriate response capability with regards to uncertain security threats externally and efficient army organization management skills and high standard leadership as army specialists for rational decision making internally. The Department of Politics and Social Studies aims to inculcate basic knowledge as military specialists to meet the expectations of external and internal security situations.

Common : Establish national security and hostile view through national security theory and North Korean studies. International relations field : Foster basic knowledge necessary for establishing national security and hostile view and furthermore, cultivate basic ability necessary for evaluating security threats surrounding the Korean peninsula and for planning, implementing and assessing national defense policies, ultimately inculcating adequate military experts to achieve the ‘vision of unified Korea'.