NORKS hacker corps reaches 5,900 sworn cyber soldiers - report North Korea has doubled the number of government hackers it employed over the last two years according to military sources from the South. The allegations claim 5900 "elite" personnel were employed in Pyongyang's hacking unit, up from 3000 in 2012. The hackers had their crosshairs firmly fixed on Seoul but operate from …
1. Because no matter how much spying your government is doing, no matter how brutal your police or how corrupt your politicians, you can point to NK and claim 'See, we're not a police state like them!'
2. Everyone likes a villain they can oppose, and NK is practically a caricature of villainy.
3. Because they are constantly threatening war - they've declared war on the US twice this year. One day they might actually follow through, and then we all get an entertaining show.
"3. Because they are constantly threatening war - they've declared war on the US twice this year. One day they might actually follow through, and then we all get an entertaining show."
We already have an entertaining show about that, with Peter Sellers and a pre-Dr. Who William Hartnell. Perhaps it should be come with a disclaimer about being for entertainment purposes only.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053084/
"3. Because they are constantly threatening war - they've declared war on the US twice this year. One day they might actually follow through, and then we all get an entertaining show."
More correctly, they've threatened to start fighting. An armistice was signed in 1953, which is just an agreement to stop fighting. North Korea and the US have been in a state of war since 1950, as no peace treaty has ever been agreed to.
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