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In recent days, the North Korean military has issued bold and public war threats such as, ‘Yeonpyeongdo and Paekryongdo residents leave now!’ and ‘It is not long before Yeonpyeongdo will turn into a sea of fire.’ More than before, there seems a likelihood that these threats are not merely intended as empty threats. This is [...]
The recent computer attacks on South Korea’s banks and media organizations have pushed the possibilities of North Korean hacking into the news. In this piece, we draw from our sources within North Korea to present a summary of one North Korean hacking export in particular: the ‘JML’ virus. The ‘JML’ Virus One of the first [...]
The ongoing battle between capitalist forces and the laws of socialism Today, North Korea has become similar to other capitalist markets in the way money is circulated in its markets. There even exist people commonly referred to as “money-makers”, who loan money to individuals at interest rates of higher than 30%. The influence of these [...]
Hamgyong Province in North Korea is famous for its regionalism. Towards the end of the 1980s, Kim Il-sung ordered for the Central Party to be reduced in membership, because he worried that the membership list of the Central Party – which included many people from Hamgyong Province – would promote the spread of regional [...]
With last month’s visit to North Korea by Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt, much media attention was focused on speculations of whether North Korea might open up to the Internet. After his visit, Schmidt made a statement that North Korea should enter the information age in line with the rest of the world; and warned that [...]
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