Posts tagged United States
DPRK concerned about US electronic warfare capability
Sep 20th
The Voice of America has got its hands on a military manual said to have been smuggled from North Korea. The manual, which was apparently published in 2005, reveals Pyongyang’s concern about electronic warfare technology used by the United States and South Korea, reports VOA. The document also indicates North Korea’s military uses radar-absorbing paint and other stealth tactics to conceal its weapons.
VOA has also posted the manual as a document on Scribd.
Full Story: VOA
Pyongyang gets social
Sep 5th
Uriminzokkiri.com, the closest thing North Korea has to an official home page, got social in July when it joined Twitter and Facebook.
The move generated lots of publicity and helped drive Internet users to follow its tweets and status-updates, but also drew the attention of the governments in Seoul and Washington.
Uriminzokkiri’s moves into social media began a few weeks earlier with the launch of a YouTube channel, but that was largely unnoticed. A few news organizations picked up on the launch including AFP, which provided a sense of the channel’s content.
One English-language video with a duration of five minutes and 56 More >
North Korea off hook for 2009 cyberattacks?
Jul 4th
North Korea has largely been ruled out as the source of a series of cyberattacks on South Korea in July 2009, the Associated Press reports quoting security experts.
The attacks targeted South Korean and U.S. government and corporate Web sites for about a week. The attacks took some of the sites down for lengthy periods of time.
At the time some lawmakers in both Seoul and Washington were reported to have pointed the finger of blame at North Korea, although offered no evidence. Experts were saying the same thing last year – they saw no evidence the attacks came from North Korea. Although More >
