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Ever since the Korean War, the threat of terror by North Korea has been the primary influence on the anti-terrorism policy of South Korea. Now there is a new possibility for terror: with the dispatch of Korean soldiers to Iraq, Islamic terror groups may target Korea in retaliation, so the Korean anti-terrorism policy should now consider the possibility of terror coming from outside of the Korean peninsula. The anti-terrorism policy should put terror prevention as first priority for protecting against any possible damages. The current anti- terrorism policy should be analyzed according tothe processes of the terrorism act, such as: the prevention, the response, and the investigation. The prevention of terrorism can be operationally explained as the reduction of terrorism opportunity. This approach works by totally ignoring the offender and instead identifying the weapons (guns, knives, bombs) used by terrorists. The goal is to prevent those weapons from being brought into Korea from abroad. The intelligence on terrorism - the travel document control, the screening of passengers andthe identification checks in routine policing - will inhibit terrorists from entering the country and trying to act. The prompt response to disaster caused by a terrorist attack, and the investigation of indirect measures for preventing the terrorism will hamper the planning attack on the territory.