North Korean hackers stole 1,014 gigabytes of data and documents from a South Korean court network over two years, according to the results of a joint probe released on Saturday.
North Korean hackers breached the internal networks of 10 South Korean defense companies and stole technical data over the past 18 months, according to the National Police Agency on Tuesday.
In his comments at a meeting of the PPP’s emergency steering committee, interim leader Han Dong-hoon said that his party “will pass legislation to restore the National Intelligence Service’s (NIS) right to investigate pro-communist activities.”
No other organizations can replace the NIS’s role in defending the country from the North’s ever-proactive intelligence operations.
According to an intelligence official at a closed-door briefing, over 80 percent of the 1.62 million hacking attempts committed against South Korean companies and public institutions last year have been traced back to the North’s agents.
The top priority is to restore human intelligence to North Korea and fill up the security vacuum following the suspension of its activities regarding domestic intelligence-gathering and the transfer of anti-communism investigations to the police.
Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk on Wednesday won 10 million won ($7,570) in damages in a civil lawsuit he brought against the state for illegal surveillance conducted against him under two previous conservative administrations.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for increased war preparations on the second day of a Workers’ Party meeting as he accused the U.S. of “unprecedented” acts of confrontation against his regime, Pyongyang’s state media reported Thursday.
The National Assembly must fix the loopholes in the revision when new lawmakers are elected in April next year.
Korea JoongAng Daily Sitemap