In 2021, the value of crypto coins like Ethereum and Bitcoin rose sharply, luring thousands of investors worldwide. Unfortunately, North Korean hackers also noticed the rise in value. Fake or scam crypto projects duping people of their money have made headlines in the last few years. Moreover, the cryptocurrency exchanges are not as safe as ...
North Korea is taking steps to boost its military power. The country has over 60 nuclear weapons and it keeps on testing missiles from time to time. UN Security Council sanctions and denuclearization summits notwithstanding, the rogue country keeps developing and testing ballistic missiles. The U.S. and its close allies think of North Korea as ...
In most countries, watching a bootlegged copy of a movie or television show will get a stern warning or a fine. In North Korea, bootlegging can cost you your life. According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), a man in North Korea was sentenced to death as a result of selling a bootleg copy of Squid Game to a ...
The “Lazarus Heist” may sound like the plot of a Hollywood movie, but in 2016, a group of real-life hackers from North Korea calling themselves the “Lazarus Group” planned and executed a nearly perfect US$1 billion raid on Bangladesh’s national bank. The hackers would’ve gotten away with it if it hadn’t been for one little ...
Originally, officials denied that Qian Weiping’s arrest, which dates back to 2019, was related to espionage. However, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy based in Hong Kong confirmed rumors that five more people had been arrested in an espionage case involving a Chinese military scientist and former Major General Qian Weiping. The Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily reported ...
A recent report by the Korea Future Initiative has brought attention to the horrible religious rights violations taking place in North Korea. Titled Persecuting Faith: Documenting Religious Freedom Violations in North Korea, the report was prepared after interviewing 117 survivors, perpetrators, and witnesses of religious violations over a period of seven months. Around 60 percent ...
The government of North Korea has set up a kill zone on its border with China. This has been done to prevent its citizens from venturing into China and bringing the CCP coronavirus back on their return trip. The information was made public by General Robert Abrams, Commander of the United States Forces Korea, during ...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a 72-page report detailing the human rights abuses perpetrated by North Korean police and security officers on North Korean female prisoners. The report contains interviews with more than 100 North Korean female prisoners. Abusing North Korean female prisoners The interviewed women have one ...
A relationship with all the bitterness (and no tenderness) of a lover’s quarrel — what would happen if North and South Korea decided to unite to form a unified Korea? Some analysts have pointed to a “glorious” future where Korea would have the world’s largest army, and an economy that bests Japan. If the huge ...
A recent report by the U.S. State Department reveals that China might have conducted some low-level nuclear tests even though the Asian country is officially believed to be in strict compliance with an international agreement that bans such activities. With the relationship between America and China stressed out due to the trade war and the ...