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North Korea doubles cyber effort

9th January 2015 - 14:24 GMT | by Gordon Arthur in Hong Kong

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North Korea has doubled the size of its cyber warfare workforce, according to South Korea’s defence white paper.

Released on 6 January, the white paper has stated: ‘North Korea is currently running its 6,000 [-member] workforce for cyber warfare and performing cyberattacks for physical and psychological paralysis inside South Korea such as causing troubles for military operations and national infrastructures.’

This is up from an estimate of 3,000 in 2013.

The white paper gave no further details. North Korea’s spy agency, the General Bureau of Reconnaissance, allegedly runs Bureau 121, a cyber-warfare unit staffed by some of the communist country’s

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