What Is The Cyberwar Threat From North Korea?

Special Report: The Cyberwar Threat From North Korea -- FOX News

WASHINGTON – North Korea’s effort to build a cyberarmy that can conduct a string of attacks on neighboring states has experts asking some key questions:

Is Pyongyang gearing up for a cyberassault on the United States?

Does it have the capability?

“They do have the capability, obviously,” says Alexandre Mansourov, a visiting scholar at the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. “But I don’t think they have the intention.”

But not everyone is so unsure. Like the Cold War in the 1950s and ’60s, cyberwarfare is becoming an arms race. Many nations, including the United States, are building up their offensive and defensive capabilities amid an increase of espionage and a proliferation of attacks on public and private computer networks.

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My Comment: I have difficulty seeing North Korea as a serious cyber foe. Their communications network/infrastructure is haphazard at best, and the computer systems that they do have are limited and rationed out to only those that they trust.