North Korea Trains Upwards Hacker Team !

Concerns virtually North Korea's cyber warfare squads are resurfacing subsequently Friday's cyber as well as GPS jamming attacks, which are beingness blamed on the North. Pyongyang began developing electronic warfare capabilities inwards 1986 when it founded Mirim University, the present-day Automation University, to develop specialists.

A defector who graduated from the academy recalled that 25 Russian professors were invited from the Frunze Military Academy inwards the quondam Soviet Union to hand lectures, as well as or thus 100 to 110 hackers were trained at that spot every year. 

Mirim is a five-year college. The Amrokgang College of Military Engineering, the National Defense University, the Air Force Academy as well as the Naval Academy are besides reportedly preparation electronic warfare specialists. 

Jang Se-yul of North Korean People's Liberation Front, an scheme of quondam North Korean armed services officers as well as servicemen, recalled that when he fled the North inwards 2007, "I heard that the North Korean armed services has virtually 30,000 electronic warfare specialists, including or thus 1,200 personnel nether 2 electronic warfare brigades."

"Each Army corps operates an automation unit, or an electronic warfare unit." Jang used to move an officeholder of a North Korean electronic warfare command.


Material published past times the North Korean Army inwards 2005 quotes leader Kim Jong-il equally saying, "Modern nation of war is electronic warfare. Victory or defeat of a modern nation of war depends on how to demeanour out electronic warfare." 

In a 2006 report, the South Korean armed services warned North Korean hackers could paralyze the dominance transportation of the the United States Pacific Command as well as harm estimator systems on the the United States mainland. 

Experts believe that the North's 600 or thus particular hackers are equally proficient equally their CIA counterparts. They attempted inwards August 2008 to hack the estimator of a colonel inwards South Korean Field Army headquarters. In 1999, the the United States Defense Department said the most frequent visitor to its website was traced to North Korea. 

Due to economical difficulties since the 1990s, the North Korean government had a hard fourth dimension boosting its conventional armed services capabilities as well as instead focused on strengthening so-called asymmetric capabilities that would permit it to accomplish relatively large effects amongst modest expenses. That includes non exclusively nuclear as well as biochemical weapons as well as missiles simply besides particular forces as well as hackers.

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