Poor North Korea Is A Cyber Superpower

There's no war, but a war-like situation prevails online between the United States and North Korea. 

The West often calls the communist country impoverished. A naive assessment if you consider Pyongyang's proclivity for destruction, even if it's of the virtual kind.

The North may be poor, it may be a hermit kingdom, but it's definitely not short of ideas that go a long way to punish its enemies and scuttle their plans even before a single bullet is fired. A cyber war is in full swing.

Hackers from the North are busy, stealing, pilfering from the West and the South. Seoul must be worried about the latest revelations of hacking.

It said war plans were stolen from the South's defence ministry a year ago. Which means the Kim regime was aware of an assassination plot against the feared and dangerous leader for a while.

One reason why the North's foes have not been able to make much headway with the secretive regime because their plans were not and are not secret. They are putting it out there, online, and Kim Jong-un and his cohorts are having a field day. They must be laughing all the way to their villas, mansions or their nuclear bunkers. Who needs friends when you have foes like these who don't know how to cover their tracks? 

It doesn't help that US President Trump is creating a much needed cyber diversion for North Korea with his comments. So much has been said after he promised 'fire and fury' that he is now beginning to sound comical.

'One thing will work' with N. Korea, he said, but we are certain that he will not launch any strike on an opponent who loves to taunt knowing that he has nuclear leverage.

These attacks from the North not only lay bare the West's and South Korea's vulnerabilities but also reveal its plots which kills the element of surprise.

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