North Korea's Cyber
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Though almost no one in DPRK has broad access to the Internet, Pyongyang has managed to nurture an army of highly skilled hackers from the best students of mathematics, who are becoming the country's unofficial elite.
Prof Kim Heung-Kwang, a computer science professor from DPRK, who fled to South Korea in 2004, said
the country had around 6,000 cyber warfare troops who report directly to the Cabinet General Intelligence Bureau. For comparison: the United States Cyber Command, created by Barack Obama in 2009, has about 700 military and civil servants. The U.S. military maintain
s 6,200 personnel in its cyber units and the United States does recognize the danger of the threat. Vincent Brooks, commander of United States Forces Korea, is sure
that North Korean hackers are some "of the best in the world and the most organized." Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike
, agrees
that the DPRK is "a formidable cyber adversary".
Donghui …
Prof Kim Heung-Kwang, a computer science professor from DPRK, who fled to South Korea in 2004, said
the country had around 6,000 cyber warfare troops who report directly to the Cabinet General Intelligence Bureau. For comparison: the United States Cyber Command, created by Barack Obama in 2009, has about 700 military and civil servants. The U.S. military maintain
s 6,200 personnel in its cyber units and the United States does recognize the danger of the threat. Vincent Brooks, commander of United States Forces Korea, is sure
that North Korean hackers are some "of the best in the world and the most organized." Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike
, agrees
that the DPRK is "a formidable cyber adversary".
Donghui …