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From VOA Learning English,
this is the Technology Report.
North Korea is often seen as a poor country,
cut off from the world
and technologically out of date.
But officials in South Korea
have linked North Korea to recent attacks
on computers and computer information systems,
and they described the North's ability
to carry out such attacks as world class.
South Korea's spy agency
recently made the claims at a meeting
with a committee of the South Korean National assembly.
The national Intelligence Service(NIS) said
North Korea has trained what the NIS calls a cyber army,
these computer experts can affect
the electronic communications and records of individuals,
businesses and even governments.
The NIS described seven North Korean hacking organizations
and the group of spies operating in China and Japan.
It noted that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says
cyber warfare is just as important as missiles and nuclear weapons.
Seo Sang-ki is chairman of the assembly's Intelligence committee.
He says North Korea established its hacking point in China
because it just across the border
has a highly developed Internet service
and its activities can be protected.
He says there appears to be about 1,700 North Korean hackers
and 4,200 supporting agents operating in China.
That number, he says, is increasing.
He says they earn money by developing software in China
and perform hacking activities
to collect national industrial secrets.
The NIS confirmed a report that North Korea
opened the private documents of a South Korean IT company
that was stored in China.
In October, South Korea's KBS TV reported
that the attack may have been an effort to steal information
from Seoul's computer networks.
Mr Seo would not name the company,
and identified it only by using the letter "S."
China usually denies the cyber attacks
are launched from its territory.
Kim Hung-kwang is president of the group
North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity.
He says China knows that North Korean hackers
launch attacks from inside China.
But he notes that China has never arrested
or expelled any North Koreans.
He says that is why it appears North Korea
is carrying out the attacks under China's approval.
North Korea is believed responsible for attacks
earlier this year that affected tens of thousands of computers.
South Korean officials say the economic cost
was estimated at $800 million.
And that's the Technology Report from VOA Learning English.
I'm Milagros Ardin.
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