This seems like the perfect place to plant some information about ways to defect, and how terrible North Korea's government is, akin to dropping leaflets or shortwave radios.
North Korean hackers allegedly probing US utilities for weaknesses
Hackers believed to be from North Korea are casing out US electric companies in preparation for a possible cyber attack – so says security firm FireEye. "FireEye devices detected and stopped spear phishing emails sent on Sept. 22, 2017, to US electric companies by known cyber threat actors likely affiliated with the North …
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Thursday 12th October 2017 03:12 GMT Amorous Cowherder
Why would you leave? If you behave like a good citizen, as you have been taught to be, then you get the "carrot". You get the nice education, somewhere to live, food to eat, the most suitable friends, your family will be looked after, all supplied by the all loving State.
Of course, if the tech bods in DPRK saw how Westerners behave in an online argument in a social media forum they'd think we all have the mental age of 5 year olds and they'd certainly never want to leave their homeland!
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Thursday 12th October 2017 12:44 GMT Aodhhan
Where's the news story?
This isn't news... it's old information. This has been going on for years.
News would be, doing real journalism to find out something new.
Such as... China is getting around UN Sanctions, by contracting North Korea hackers to probe for weaknesses in the utility networks of USA, England, South Korea, etc. Thus, they are able to fund North Korean military and receive valuable information system information.
C'mon. Stop with the lazy reporting.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
