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NK has 30,000 electronic warfare specialists: Fox News
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 02:55:55 -0500 (CDT)
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=060000&biid=2011051977548 donga.com May 19, 2011 North Korea has as many as 30,000 electronic warfare specialists as part of the elite core of the North`s military, Fox News said Tuesday. Quoting U.S. and South Korean intelligence, the U.S. network said Washington and Seoul believe that the U.S. CIA can match Pyongyang`s capability in cyber warfare. Fox quoted North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as telling his military several years ago, “Modern war is electronic warfare. Victory or defeat in a modern war depends on how to carry out electronic warfare.” He has since made cyber warfare a top albeit secret priority of his paranoid regime, it added. Among the most frequent visitors to U.S. military websites are computers traced to North Korea, according to the U.S. Defense Department. Much like the clandestine nuclear program run by the rogue state, its cyber warfare capability is shrouded in secrecy. [...]
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