North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Sci-Tech Complex, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), October 28, 2015.Reuters/KCNA
NBC: How North Korea recruits its army of young hackers
SEOUL, South Korea — Teenage math whiz Ri Jong Yol was a solid candidate to join Kim Jong Un's army of elite hackers.
He had just won silver for the third year in a row at the world's premier high school mathematics championship, the International Mathematical Olympiad, which was held in Hong Kong in 2016.
But the night before he was supposed to return to North Korea with his team, the 18-year-old walked off the campus of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and defected.
According to Kim Heung Kwang, a former science professor who also escaped from North Korea, Ri is now studying at a university in Seoul. Little else is known about him.
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WNU Editor: This story reminds me on how the Soviet Union recruited young people to do specific jobs or activities, and the "carrot" was that if you do not accept their offer, you would have to do military service. Not surprising .... when faced with doing what you love vs. military service .... most decided to focus on what they were good at. In my case .... it was playing chess.
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