Kim's Habits

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Kim's Habits

Confronted with a terrible economic situation, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il decided to gamble at the capitalist online casinos in hopes of gathering a little money for the comrades starving under his wise rule.
Thus, according to South Korean authorities, Kim has ordered North Korean hackers to play on the very popular South Korean gaming websites and to acquire points that are convertible to cash.
The officials in Seoul believe that the North is training an entire army of hackers and computer programmers. Three South Koreans and a Korean-Chinese were arrested on Thursday under charges of recruiting North Korean hackers to set up a 30-member squad of video gaming experts.
The squad was operating from within northern China, creating software that breached the servers of very popular South Korean online games. The accumulated points are exchanged for cash at sites where human players focus on enhancing their online avatars. Dozens of unmanned computers continue to play non stop.
The software was also sold, and the “factories” created by it function in spite the fact that there are illegal in South Korea.
The organizers won within two years some $6 million, 55% of which they gave to the hackers, who gave some of the money to the agents in Pyongyang.

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These hackers are all graduates at the elite North Korean science academies, and were dispatched towards South Korea from a state-run computer center and a covert company which answer to the famous Communist Party Office 39, which gathers money for Kim Jong-il personally, to maintain his life standards.
Reports say that each of the hackers is required to bring back to North Korea $500 a month. No one knows exactly how much more these “legally thieves” are making after “taxes.”
South Korean authorities and the Americans consider that Office 39 provides Kim with billions of dollars, made in weapon sales, drug deals, counterfeiting and other activities.
Authorities considers that Kim uses some of the money to finance his nuclear weapons programme as well as for bribing his clique with Rolex watches bought from abroad.
South Korea accused the North over the last past years of attacking its national computer grids, but the North rejected the accusations and called them conspiracies.
The United States and the South Korea imposed a set of sanctions on the regime in Pyongyang with the purpose of drying up Kim’s reserves of money.
Recently, the Communist leader proposed the resumption of the six-nation format talks that would put an end to the nuclear program of the North as well as to the sanctions against it.
The negotiations were resumed last week, and they are expected to progress after years of stalemate caused by the North for different reasons.

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