'N.K. nurtures science prodigies as hackers'

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http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20131204000803

By Park Han-na
The Korea Herald
2013-12-04

North Korea is aggressively beefing up its cyber warfare capabilities by 
adding child prodigies to its 3,000-strong special hacker unit targeting 
South Korea and its allies, an expert said Tuesday, citing the testimonies 
of North Korean defectors.

Pyongyang regularly screens math and science prodigies to train them to be 
cyber experts through state-led education programs at home and abroad, 
according to Steven Kim, a professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for 
Security Studies.

Kim said the selected elementary school students go through grueling 
training sessions including internal competitions at well-equipped 
facilities. Successful candidates get extra training in China and Russia 
and come back to North Korea to join the cyber operations, he said during 
a speech at the Korea Economic Institute of America in Washington, D.C.

Kim said the North was escalating the level of its cyber provocations as 
its online attacks could undermine the social and financial infrastructure 
of the South, one of the world’s most-wired countries.

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