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North Korea is not using territorial resources to conduct cyber operations and most North Korean state-sponsored activity is likely perpetrated from abroad, which presents an opportunity to apply asymmetric pressure on the Kim regime, shows a report.
Recorded Future's report shows that there is "significant physical and virtual North Korean presence in several nations around the world — nations where North Koreans are likely engaging in malicious cyber and criminal activities. These nations include India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nepal, Kenya, Mozambique, and Indonesia".
While the vast majority of North Koreans do not have access to internet, the analysis by Recorded Future shows that limited number of North Korean leaders and ruling elite have access to the internet. They actively engage in Western and popular social media, regularly read international news, use many of the same services such as video streaming and online gaming
The report says that in the April-July 2017 timeperiod, nearly one-fifth of all internet activity observed involved India.
Handcuffed, wearing bulletproof vests and under heavily armed guard, the two women accused of murdering the half-brother of North Korea’s leader were pushed around a Malaysian airport in wheelchairs on Tuesday during a court visit to the crime scene, reports Reuters.
Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, 28, a Vietnamese, are charged with murdering Kim Jong Nam by smearing his face with VX, a chemical nerve agent, at Kuala Lumpur’s budget international terminal on Feb. 13.
Defense lawyers say the women thought they were involved in a prank for a reality TV show when they encountered a man at the airport and did not know they were handling poison.
The two women were brought back to the scene as part of an entourage of court officials, led by trial judge Azmi Ariffin and accompanied by over 200 police officers and dozens of journalists, on a visit to retrace the events that unfolded before, during and after Kim Jong Nam’s death.
A UN committee has added 32 items that have both civilian and military uses to a list of prohibited goods and technologies banned from sale or transfer to North Korea, reports PTI.
The committee that monitors sanctions against North Korea says in a report to the Security Council circulated today that the additions range from boxes that can use used to carry radioactive materials to continuous cooling systems, flash X- ray machines and seismic detection equipment.
A resolution adopted unanimously by the Security Council on September 11 imposing new sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear and ballistic missile tests asked the sanctions committee to come up with new designations of so-called dual- use items.
The threat from North Korea has grown to a “critical and imminent level” and the United States, Japan and South Korea must address the matter, Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera told his US and South Korean counterparts in talks on Monday, reports Reuters. “(The) threat posed by North Korea has grown to the unprecedented, critical and imminent level. Therefore, we have to take calibrated and different responses to meet with that level of threat,” he said.
North Korea is not using territorial resources to conduct cyber operations and most North Korean state-sponsored activity is likely perpetrated from abroad, which presents an opportunity to apply asymmetric pressure on the Kim regime, shows a report.
Recorded Future's report shows that there is "significant physical and virtual North Korean presence in several nations around the world — nations where North Koreans are likely engaging in malicious cyber and criminal activities. These nations include India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nepal, Kenya, Mozambique, and Indonesia".
While the vast majority of North Koreans do not have access to internet, the analysis by Recorded Future shows that limited number of North Korean leaders and ruling elite have access to the internet. They actively engage in Western and popular social media, regularly read international news, use many of the same services such as video streaming and online gaming
The report says that in the April-July 2017 timeperiod, nearly one-fifth of all internet activity observed involved India.
India today sought a probe into North Korea's nuclear proliferation linkages and demanded that those responsible for it be held accountable. There was a veiled reference to Pakistan on the accountability part.
Indian Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the nuclear and missile tests conducted by North Korea were in violation of its international commitments and have triggered serious concerns regarding “India's national security and that of the entire region”. She was addressing the 4th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ meeting in Manila, Philippines.
"It is important that North Korea's proliferation linkages are investigated and those who have supported its nuclear and missile programme are held accountable," Sitharaman said, in a veiled reference to Pakistan's links with Pyongyang.
Pakistan had secretly supplied North Korea with nuclear enrichment technology when A Q Khan headed the country's nuclear programme.
According to western media reports, Pakistan supplied vital machinery, drawings and technical advice to North Korea, allowing Pyongyang to enrich uranium as early as 2002. (PTI)
US Senator Bob Corker has taken on President Donald Trump by saying his moves regarding North Korea were taking America on a "path to combat".
Speaking to ABC News the senator said that instead of escalating tension by putting out certain tweets, the president should leave it to professionals for a more constructive solution to the problem.
Corker also said that President Trump was hindering diplomatic solution, with regards to China, by undermining US secretary of state Rex Tillerson.
North Korea is likely to be developing biological weapons alongside its nuclear programme, a new report has warned, reports The Independent.
A new study by the Belfer Centre, a US thinktank, warns that Pyongyang is likely to have a programme to develop its biological weaponry.
Based on testimony from defectors, it is believed to have begun in the 1960s after the Korean War between 1950 and 1953 caused the deaths of thousands in outbreaks of cholera, typhus, typhoid, and smallpox which the regime blamed on biological attacks by the US.
North Korea could wipe out 90 percent of the US population through starvation if the rogue state knocks out America's electricity with a electromagnetic blast, an ex-CIA analyst has claimed, reports The Sun.
Peter Vincent Pry said a North Korean electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the US — which does not require the precision of a nuclear missile — would wreak havoc.
The former CIA nuclear strategist told a congressional Homeland Security sub-committee that it could cause starvation, disease and societal collapse resulting in apocalyptic consequences.
He explained an EMP warhead doesn't need to enter the Earth's atmosphere before exploding and generating a high-frequency electromagnetic pulse that would damage a broad range of electronics.
In an interview with Forbes, he said: “The US can sustain a population of 320 million people only because of modern technology. An EMP that blacks-out the electric grid for a year would [decimate] the critical infrastructure necessary to support such a large population."
China’s imports of iron ore and lead concentrate from North Korea plunged to their lowest in more than six years, while coal arrivals fell sharply after the United Nations’ latest sanctions against the isolated nation, data showed on Tuesday, reports Reuters.
Lead ore and concentrate arrivals totaled just 1,321 tonnes, worth $1.18 million, down 84 percent from a year earlier and the lowest on Reuters records dating back to January 2010, according to data from the General Administration of Customs.
Iron ore shipments plunged 98 percent to 3,035 tonnes, worth about $55,000, the lowest monthly volume on Reuters records from January 2011.
China imported 511,619 tonnes of coal, worth about $44 million, from North Korea, down 71.6 percent from a year earlier.
The data represents the final shipments allowed through customs before the U.N. penalties came into force on Sept. 5, banning Pyongyang from selling coal, iron ore, lead, lead ore and seafood abroad.
US President Donald Trump will urge President Xi Jinping to make good on his commitments to pressure North Korea when he visits China next month, a senior White House official said on Monday, stepping up a strategy to have Beijing help rein in Pyongyang, reports CNBC.
Isolating North Korea further over its nuclear and ballistic missile tests is a key goal for Trump on what will be his longest foreign trip to date.
Trump will call on Xi to fully implement UN Security Council resolutions against Pyongyang and take other steps to pressure North Korea.
China, North Korea's sole major ally, accounts for more than 90 percent of trade with the isolated country.
Handcuffed, wearing bulletproof vests and under heavily armed guard, the two women accused of murdering the half-brother of North Korea’s leader were pushed around a Malaysian airport in wheelchairs on Tuesday during a court visit to the crime scene, reports Reuters.
Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, 28, a Vietnamese, are charged with murdering Kim Jong Nam by smearing his face with VX, a chemical nerve agent, at Kuala Lumpur’s budget international terminal on Feb. 13.
Defense lawyers say the women thought they were involved in a prank for a reality TV show when they encountered a man at the airport and did not know they were handling poison.
The two women were brought back to the scene as part of an entourage of court officials, led by trial judge Azmi Ariffin and accompanied by over 200 police officers and dozens of journalists, on a visit to retrace the events that unfolded before, during and after Kim Jong Nam’s death.
The US President Donald Trump will speak to US and South Korean troops at Camp Humphreys, 55 miles south of Seoul but he is reportedly unlikely to visit the Korean demilitarised zone — a heavily guarded strip of land that divides the North and South — on the advice of South Korea President Moon Jae-in, reports Express.
It is feared that Trump’s presence will spark further tensions between the US and North Korea who have been engaged in a war of words with Trump threatening “fire and fury” against Pyongyang.
A senior White House official defending Trump's tough stance, said: “If we fail to confront and reverse the threat from North Korea we’re going to be living in a much darker era.
“The president’s rhetoric, and more importantly his actions, have led to the most substantial shift and progress by the international community in confronting this threat than we’ve seen over the past several administrations.”
Pictures smuggled out of North Korea by a tourist appear to reveal the true unprepared reality of Kim Jong-un’s army, reports Herald Sun.
As the North Korean leader continues to ratchet up his rhetoric with US President Donald Trump amid heightened fears of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula, these revealing snaps show a different side of the story.
The pictures, taken between Mount Kumgang and the city of Wonsan on North Korea’s east coast, show trucks that date back to World War II, dangerously overladen vehicles, female soldiers wearing high heels, fighters who appear to be carrying fake weapons and exhausted troops sleeping by the roadside.
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One of the world's most secretive states is going green — for national security reasons.
Pyongyang may be interested in developing algae as "a strategic resource," according to a recent note on 38 North, a website focused on North Korea that's part of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, reports CNBC.
Algae, plantlike organisms that includes kelp and spirulina, is a multipurpose resource that can produce food, fertilizer, feedstock and fuel from the same biomass. And it makes sense for Pyongyang to be interested: Over time, an algae industry could gradually "mitigate the negative effects of sanctions both on the country's energy supply and food security," the note said.
Research facilities dedicated to open ponds and aquaculture systems — key infrastructure for algae growth — have existed in the rogue state since the early 2000s but they have recently become more complex, 38 North said, pointing to large plants in two different areas as examples.
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A UN committee has added 32 items that have both civilian and military uses to a list of prohibited goods and technologies banned from sale or transfer to North Korea, reports PTI.
The committee that monitors sanctions against North Korea says in a report to the Security Council circulated today that the additions range from boxes that can use used to carry radioactive materials to continuous cooling systems, flash X- ray machines and seismic detection equipment.
A resolution adopted unanimously by the Security Council on September 11 imposing new sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear and ballistic missile tests asked the sanctions committee to come up with new designations of so-called dual- use items.
Fresh off a decisive election victory, Japan's PM Shinzo Abe pledged on Monday to tackle what he called Japan's two national crises: the military threat from North Korea and an aging and shrinking population, reports PTI.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at a news conference that he is committed to protect the Japanese people's prosperity and peace from any contingency. He also referred to the Japanese kidnapped years ago and believed still held by North Korea.
"I will pursue decisive and strong diplomacy to tackle North Korea's missile, nuclear and abduction issues and put further pressure to get it to change its policy," he said.
The threat from North Korea has grown to a “critical and imminent level” and the United States, Japan and South Korea must address the matter, Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera told his US and South Korean counterparts in talks on Monday, reports Reuters. “(The) threat posed by North Korea has grown to the unprecedented, critical and imminent level. Therefore, we have to take calibrated and different responses to meet with that level of threat,” he said.