Published on: 2025-06-03 20:39:16
"Smartphones are now part and parcel of the way North Korea tries to indoctrinate people." Autocomrade North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, is tightening the leash to stop the influence of South Korean media from crossing the border, where it's often smuggled on USB sticks and SD cards. As the BBC reports, consuming foreign media is punishable by imprisonment and even death in the dictatorship. In 2023, Kim even made it a crime for people to use South Korean phrases or speak in a South
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 18:19:59
In the lush foothills of Damyang county, South Jeolla province, rows of earthenware jars stand under the Korean sky. Inside each clay vessel, a quiet transformation is taking place, one that has been occurring on this land for centuries. This is the domain of Ki Soon-do, South Korea’s sole grand master of traditional aged soy sauce, where patience isn’t just a virtue but the essential ingredient in her craft. “Here, try this,” Ki says, removing the heavy lid from one of the 1,200 pots. She dip
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 05:39:58
North Korea attempted to launch a new 5,000-ton naval destroyer on Wednesday, but the ship suffered a “major accident,” according to state media outlet KCNA, which reports the hull has been damaged. And North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is not happy about it, to say the least. KCNA reports that Kim called the incident a “serious accident and criminal act caused by sheer carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism which should never occur and could not be tolerated.” North Korea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 21:00:00
The young developers are having the time of their lives. They pop open bottles of sparkling wine, eat steak dinners, play soccer together, and lounge around in a luxurious private swimming pool, all of their activity captured in photos that were later exposed online. In one picture, a man poses in front of a life-sized Minions cardboard cutout. But despite their exuberance, these are not successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs; they’re IT workers from the Hermit Kingdom of North Korea, who infil
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Only those who know about the Spectacle theater enter the Spectacle theater. Tucked off bustling Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in a building that might look abandoned to the untrained eye, it’s the home for the latest in unknown, cult, and cutting-edge hip cinema. And last week, it was home to what might be Kim Jong Il’s masterpiece: the Godzilla knockoff Pulgasari. Called “bizarre” and “fascinating” by some of the 23 Brooklynites who attended last month’s screening, Pulgasari the f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 21:15:54
There are allegedly thousands of North Koreans who have successfully disguised themselves as Americans and landed remote work jobs at Fortune 500 businesses and crypto firms. And while their techniques for getting in are sophisticated, catching them apparently just requires asking one kinda crude question: “How fat is Kim Jong Un?” According to Adam Meyers, the Senior Vice President of Counter Adversary Operations at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, asking that question during the interview proc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 15:50:44
Samsung Electronics' operating profit and revenue beat analysts' estimates Wednesday, as sales of its flagship Galaxy S25 smartphones as well as memory chips rose. The South Korean company posted a record quarterly revenue, up 10% from a year earlier, while its first-quarter operating profit climbed 1.5%. Here are Samsung's first-quarter results compared with LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted toward forecasts from analysts who are more consistently accurate: Revenue : 79.1 trillion Kore
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-21 14:53:19
Visitors look at the display of SK Hynix Inc. 12-layer HBM3E memory chips at the Semiconductor Exhibition (SEDEX) in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. South Korea announced Tuesday a support package of 33 trillion won ($23.25 billion) for its vital semiconductor industry, as heightened uncertainty over U.S. tariffs threatens domestic companies. This comes after U.S. president Donald Trump reportedly said he would be announcing the tariff rate on imported semiconductors soon, a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-01 21:47:23
Fortune 500 companies have unwittingly hired thousands of software engineers who claim to be American developers but are actually North Korean citizens using stolen or fake identities. Through legitimate employment, the IT workers are illegally funneling their salaries to Kim Jong Un’s regime to fund prohibited weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs. The U.S. Treasury, State Department, and FBI collectively estimate the IT workers scam has generated hundreds of millions each
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Apple’s Find My feature has finally been enabled in South Korea, according to a company announcement translated by Apple Insider . This comes after years of public demand in which the finding network tool was absent from the country. The omission was especially odd when you consider that Apple sold AirTags throughout the region. Without Find My, they are basically just puck-shaped paperweights. The company never explicitly stated why it limited access to Find My in South Korea, but it appeared
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-29 08:07:29
In Brief The North Korean government is reportedly establishing a new hacking group within the intelligence agency Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB). Daily NK, a news outlet that focuses on North Korea, reported last week that the new hacking unit, called Research Center 227, will focus on research to develop “offensive hacking technologies and programs,” citing a source inside the regime. The source said, per the report, Research Center 227 will research Western cybersecurity systems and c
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How does North Korea launder its crypto loot? Each time the Hermit Kingdom successfully hacks a company or protocol — like when it pillaged $1.5 billion from crypto exchange Bybit on Feb. 21 — it faces the significant challenge of offramping its assets. Story continues Don't miss another story. Subscribe to the State of Crypto Newsletter today . See all newsletters Sign me up By signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy .
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A group of hackers with links to the North Korean regime uploaded Android spyware onto the Google Play app store and were able to trick some people into downloading it, according to cybersecurity firm Lookout. In a report published on Wednesday, and exclusively shared with TechCrunch ahead of time, Lookout details an espionage campaign involving several different samples of an Android spyware it calls KoSpy, which the company attributes with “high confidence” to the North Korean government. At
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Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group tracked as Moonstone Sleet has deployed Qilin ransomware payloads in a limited number of recent attacks. "Since late February 2025, Microsoft has observed Moonstone Sleet, a North Korean state actor, deploying Qilin ransomware at a limited number of orgs," the company's threat intelligence experts said this week "Moonstone Sleet has previously exclusively deployed their own custom ransomware in their attacks, and this represents the first instance th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 00:50:47
North Korea has gotten away with its biggest crypto heist yet, this time stealing approximately $1.4 billion worth of Ethereum, about 400,000 coins, from the cryptocurrency exchange ByBit. The company’s CEO Ben Zhou on Monday said the company was able to raise new funding to fill the gap and that ByBit can cover all withdrawals, though you might remember a certain other exchange CEO who made the same promise before his exchange abruptly collapsed. The company is offering a 10% bounty for any fu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-07 20:50:38
On Friday, hackers stole around $1.4 billion in Ethereum cryptocurrency from crypto exchange Bybit, in what is the largest crypto heist of all time. After the hack, several blockchain monitoring firms, as well as the well-known crypto investigator ZachXBT, have all pointed to the North Korean government hacking group known as Lazarus Group as the culprit. ZachXBT was the first to point the finger of blame, just a few hours after he himself noticed the first signs of the hack. The researcher sa
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Last July, citizens of South Korea started a petition asking Apple to enable Find My support in the region. It was assumed that Find My was unavailable due to government restrictions, but that wasn’t actually the case according to the petition. Apple later agreed to launch Find My support for the region in spring 2025, and that integration is finally starting to roll out. Highlighted by Aaron Perris on X, the Find My network is now available in South Korea, as of iOS 18.4 beta 1. This means th
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