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The passing of former North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il did not only leave the country with a figurative dark legacy, but also with a rather obvious, real one. This image shows the country as viewed from satellite during the night. The sea of light to the south is South Korea, to the north is China. The Dear Leader pas... |
19 December 2011
11:03 GMT |
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The National Intelligence Service (NIS), the chief intelligence agency of South Korea, finished an investigation which revealed that the email accounts of Korea University Graduate School of Information Security students were attacked by North Korean hackers.
According to The Chosunilbo, the inquiry revealed that th... |
17 November 2011
07:36 GMT |
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On Friday, September 23, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) managed to launch a new spy satellite to Earth's orbit. The successful maneuver marked another expansion in the Asian nation's orbital capabilities, which are already rather extensive.
One of the primary uses Japanese spy satellite ha... |
28 September 2011
02:38 GMT |
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A unit of police based in South Korea has apparently tracked and dismantled a ring of gold farmers that were targeting a number of well known South Asian based MMOs in order to farm gold and then exchange it for real world money, with the portion of the money obtained going to the North Korean regime.The Seoul based ... |
8 August 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Security giant McAfee claims that DDoS attacks against South Korean websites seen back in March might have been a North Korean exercise.According to a newly published McAfee report called "Ten Days of Rain" [pdf], the malware used to carry out the attacks was configured to disable itself after ten days.Furthermore, i... |
6 July 2011
14:14 GMT |
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South Korean prosecutors claim the North is responsible for a cyber attack that crippled the systems of a bank last month causing it to halt operations for several days.The attack led to a three-day service outage at the banking division of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (Nonghyup), the second large... |
3 May 2011
12:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher THQ has announced that its first-person shooter Homefront has managed to sell more than 1 million copies all over North America, Europe and Asia, with another 1.4 million units shipped to store, ready to sell in the coming weeks and months.Homefront is important to THQ because the company has inv... |
25 March 2011
04:21 GMT |
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The upcoming THQ published and Kaos developed shooter Homefront tells a story which could resonate deeply with American gamers, who will need to fight for freedom as their country is being invaded and overrun by North Korean forces, but the two companies are aiming to make the experience a global one, focusing on sha... |
10 January 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Hackers have hijacked North Korea's YouTube and Twitter propaganda accounts and used them to mock Kim Jong-un, heir-apparent to the country's leadership, on his birthday.The accounts were created in August last year under the username uriminzokkiri, which means "our nation" in Korean, and were tied to a Pyo... |
10 January 2011
09:08 GMT |
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A game developer working on the upcoming Homefront first person shooter has stated that he believes controversy built around games like his own or Medal of Honor is something positive as long as it generates actual fact-based debate and not just condemnation. Talking to Destructiod, Dave Votypka, who is the general ... |
14 December 2010
04:41 GMT |
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Scareware pushers have poisoned search results related to the North and South Korean cross-border clash at Yeonpyeong with malicious links.Earlier today, North Korea fired artillery shells that hit the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. The South returned fire with K-9 howitzers.After exchanging two rounds of shells ... |
23 November 2010
11:55 GMT |
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Publisher THQ has announced that Homefront, its upcoming shooter based around the invasion of the United States mainland by a powerful North Korea, will be released on March 8, 2011 in North America, on March 11 on the European market and on March 10 in Australia.The game is being prepared for the Xbox 360 from Micro... |
22 November 2010
05:05 GMT |
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Publisher THQ and the Random House Publishing Group have announced that they are working together to put out a novel set in the Homefront video game universe, created by John Milius and Raymond Benson, set to appear in early 2011 alongside the video game using the same name under the Del Rey imprint.The story of Home... |
27 October 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Even though the first video game in the series is not even out the leader of the core division at publisher THQ has said that the company is already preparing the defining elements for Homefront 2, creating the basis for a successful franchise.Talking to VG247 Danny Bilson, who is the executive vice president of the ... |
12 October 2010
13:31 GMT |
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North Korea's apparent venture into social networking got a lot of coverage and for good reason, the secluded country rarely interacts with the outside world, least of which via social media. It turns out though, that the country is not behind any of the YouTube, Twitter or Facebook accounts that have sprung up,... |
24 August 2010
08:26 GMT |
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After having launched their official Twitter page only last week, North Korea’s account was banned in South Korea because it reportedly contained illegal data, according to Seoul representatives.Considering the official North Korea website is Uriminzokkiri.com, when a Twitter account called @uriminzok was crea... |
20 August 2010
12:52 GMT |
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Twitter is quickly becoming the tool of choice for spreading any type of message and it looks like even the most oppressing of regimes are beginning to use it. North Korea is said to have set up an official Twitter account used, so far, for what most Twitter users do, self promotion. Uriminzokkiri.com is North Korea&... |
16 August 2010
11:24 GMT |
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THQ has reported that it has lost money and has seen revenue decline for the fiscal quarter that ended on June 30. The company has previously announced that its results would be worse than expected mainly because of slower than through sales for its flagship release, UFC Undisputed 2010, a game that got glowing revie... |
10 August 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Justin Bieber, the teen sensation that you’ve probably and unwillingly heard of in the past months, hasn’t had the best of weekends. Having stirred the destructive ‘fury’ of 4chan, just because of his huge popularity with a certain demographic, he was the victim of several attacks, pranks and ... |
5 July 2010
10:06 GMT |
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Scientists speaking on Tuesday, at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), have demonstrated that, while the last rocket tests North Korea did were failures, the country is making important progress in building increasingly bigger and better delivery systems. While Pyongyang continues to argue tha... |
16 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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South Korea joined today the “space nations” group, when it launched its first rocket to orbit, carrying a scientific payload. The successful take-off took place from the Naro Space Center, a facility operated by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, located some 485 kilometers (300 miles) South of the ... |
25 August 2009
05:59 GMT |
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The command and control servers used by the Mydoom variant, responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against Korean and US government websites, receive instructions from a master server located in the UK. Meanwhile, the majority of experts agree that no evidence exists so far to incriminate North Korea. ... |
14 July 2009
04:43 GMT |
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None of the components of a global network of sensors, meant to pick up traces of radioactivity that are regularly generated by nuclear tests, managed to accurately identify gas signatures coming from North Korea's test, in late May. Thus, the Western World has no conclusive evidence that Pyongyang actually deto... |
18 June 2009
03:50 GMT |
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Red Dawn was playing up the threat of a Russian invasion of the continental United States. Homefront has taken the main concept from the cult movie and substituted the Soviet Union with North Korea. In 2027, following a long-term energy crisis, the North Koreans invade and a resistance movement appears to repulse the... |
4 June 2009
13:11 GMT |
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THQ is announcing that it plans to release a videogame called Homefront, scheduled to be launched for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC. The game is set to be developed by Kaos Studios and will have a unique story.The narrative of the videogame will be created by John Milius, who has written the screenp... |
29 May 2009
04:07 GMT |
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On May 25th, seismographs in Japan picked up shock waves traveling through the Earth's crust, similar to those created by a nuclear explosion. Mounting pieces of evidence pointed at the fact that North Korea again tested such a device on its own territory, suspicions that were confirmed when Pyongyang substantia... |
27 May 2009
18:31 GMT |
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North Korean authorities apparently mean business, western officials have said. The Communist nation has announced just recently that it will openly engage in military confrontations with South Korea, if any of its ships, military or civilian, are stopped and searched by a US-led coalition. The Democratic half of Ko... |
27 May 2009
09:16 GMT |
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Despite the fact that North Korea launched its redesigned Taepo-Dong-2 long-range missile on Sunday ignoring all warnings, the mission in itself was an utter failure, if its goal was to deliver a small communications satellite into orbit. The UN and the United States, together with Japan and South Korea, strongly opp... |
7 April 2009
03:53 GMT |
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The North Korean Space Technology Agency (STA) has recently announced that it plans to test-fire a missile, which is allegedly designed to carry a satellite into orbit. But, in the past, this was Pyongyang's way of justifying testing long-range ballistic missiles. The US, Japan and South Korea are highly concern... |
24 February 2009
06:50 GMT |
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The introduction of the 3G network represents an immense step forward for North Korea, given the fact that this country is one of the poorest in Asia, and also keeping in mind that it is one of the most tightly controlled states in the world. This development represents for Korean users one of the most useful service... |
15 December 2008
09:56 GMT |
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The South Korean defense industry is at great risk as the National Security Research Institute announced that malicious spyware applications had been detected on the networks of two major manufacturers of military equipment. The LIGNex1 and Hyundai Heavy Industries produce critical defense weapons valued at tens of b... |
3 October 2008
08:28 GMT |
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The South Korean army claims that its military secrets are continuously being threatened by North Korean espionage attacks. The most recent attack covered by South Korean newspapers seems to have taken place from behind the computer desk. The English version of the Chosun news website claims that its journalists hav... |
2 September 2008
09:54 GMT |
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Linux has the power to unite foes. This statement is true because two bitter political enemies - North and South Korea - will team up with China in the project "Hana Linux".Hana Linux is a distribution, which was announced at the ICMIP 2007 event in Yenji, China, last week. The Linux event that will take place in Pyo... |
5 December 2007
06:05 GMT |
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