“I was terrified.” Panic in Hollywood, careers ruined and helium filled balloons sent to North Korea. President Obama makes clear who he blames for the Sony hack.
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BBC: The Lazarus Heist, S1, Ep1: Hacking Hollywood →
A movie, Kim Jong-un and a devastating cyber attack. The story of the Sony hack. How the Lazarus Group hackers caused mayhem in Hollywood and for Sony Pictures Entertainment. And this is just the beginning…
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BBC: Introducing the Lazarus Heist →
The most daring bank theft ever attempted? From hacking Hollywood to a billion-dollar plot. Premieres 19 April 2021. With Geoff White and Jean Lee.
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Asia Dispatches: Goodbye, Pyongyang: As North Korea’s isolation deepens, foreign diplomats take drastic measures to leave →
I know firsthand how tough life is, for North Koreans as well as foreigners living in Pyongyang.
As a foreign correspondent who ran a news bureau in Pyongyang, I had to bring everything we might need in the largest, lightest suitcases I could find. Everything from toothpaste and toilet paper for everyday use to antibiotics, aspirin and First Aid kits with dehydration tablets for my monthly bouts of stomach flu in a country where the water was not clean and frequent power outages meant spoiled food.
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Asia Dispatches: Ten Years after Debut, North Korea’s Kim Celebrates Nuclear Accomplishments - And Acknowledges Hardships →
Kim Jong Un in 2020: Today, he is closer than ever to his goal of forcing the world to acknowledge North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, even as his people suffer in the shadows.
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Wilson Quarterly: Guns and Hunger →
My family’s wartime tale is not particularly remarkable; their harrowing experience could be told a million times over. This is not a tale of military heroism, or even one of selfless sacrifice. It is simply the story of one family of ordinary Koreans who survived the three cruel and crushing years of war that killed nearly a million South Korean civilians.
Read MoreWilson Center: History Tells Us How North Korea Would Handle the Death of Kim Jong-un →
North Korea will use a fog of disinformation to maintain stability, just as Pyongyang did with Kim Jong Il.
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CFTNI: History Tells Us How North Korea Would Handle the Death of Kim Jong Un →
North Korea will use a fog of disinformation to maintain stability, just as Pyongyang did with Kim Jong-il.
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Asia Dispatches: Using tech to fight the virus: How much privacy are South Koreans relinquishing in the battle against COVID-19? →
South Korea has been lauded for flattening the curve of COVID-19 with its lightning fast, coordinated response — rightly so — but its methods have also raised questions about whether the government is going too far with technology and surveillance in the name of the public good.
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Prospect: How South Korea flattened the curve →
As other countries hurtle toward disaster, South Korea looks like the safer and smarter place to be. So what can other governments learn about how to handle coronavirus?
by Jean H Lee / March 27, 2020
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