Security News > 2009 > July > Why North Korea Is Silent on Cyber Warfare

http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00400&num=5185 By Moon Sung Hwee The Daily NK 2009-07-20 It has been 13 days since the July 7th problems caused by the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack which paralyzed key websites in South Korea and the U.S. The South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) asserted at the time that those who backed the attacks were either North Korean or pro-North Korea factions. However, despite such an accusatory assessment, North Korea has not responded in any way. The NIS claims that the only group with the desire to conduct cyber terror attacks against both South Korea and U.S. key organizations is North Korea, and offered one piece of circumstantial evidences: that North Korea strongly denounced “Cyber Storm,” the June 27 U.S.-South Korea joint training exercise on possible cyber terror. Suspecting that the act was that of a North Korean hacking organization disguised as a legitimate enterprise located in Shenyang, China, the NIS has been trying to track down the IP address. However, no clear evidence has emerged. Meanwhile, North Korea’s response has been interesting. Generally, whenever the South Korean government so much as mentions the word "North," North Korea instantly produces a volley of aggressive claims about the possibility of military catastrophe. Pyongyang’s silence in the face of the NIS designation is somewhat unprecedented. [...]

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