The 2024 Summer Olympics, a global celebration of sports, commenced on July 27 in Paris, France, but the opening ceremony has sparked significant backlash...
KnowBe4, a well-regarded cybersecurity training company based in the U.S., has become yet another victim of a long-running North Korean IT worker scam
The company’s...
Exploring the North-South ‘Spy War’
Part 1: The life and times of North Korean spy Kim Dong-sik
March 18, 1981, Pyongyang’s Daedong River Station at dusk.
Kim...
The U.S. government has announced a $10 million reward for information leading to the capture of a North Korean hacker.
This individual is accused of...
While the South Korean government has recently highlighted a “rush of high-level defections” prompted by media outreach and loudspeaker broadcasts to North Korea, fewer...
Exploring the North-South ‘Spy War’
Part 1: The life and times of North Korean spy Kim Dong-sik
The world of espionage is neither glamorous nor romantic....
In late September of last year, Taiwanese media simultaneously reported that classified files on the Hai Kun, Taiwan’s first indigenous submarine, had been handed...
In early 2019, an intriguing rumor began circulating among the employees at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME, now Hanwha Ocean) in Geoje, South...
“Mom, am I South Korean, Chinese, or North Korean?”
“You are neither Chinese nor North Korean. You are a South Korean.”
Jung-ah Kim (alias), a North...
